Hi, I'm Lale Aricoglu, and this is Women Who Travel.

Today, my guest is a Moroccan Canadian singer-songwriter, who, at just 23, has already

clocked up numerous accolades for her poppy, anthemic hooks performed in English, French and Arabic.

She's Fosia Weir.

A quick note before we get started.

This episode was recorded several weeks before the devastating earthquake in Morocco.

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My sound as an artist is a dramatic, dark, like, fun, pop

sound that I would say sometimes has a Middle Eastern flare mixed in in some tracks. But there's

also an almost theatrical aspect to some of my songs as well.

Born in Casablanca, Fosia and her family settled in the prairie country of Central Canada

in the early 2000s. So we immigrated when I was one, so I was just a little baby. But I feel

like I held onto my culture really well because my parents spoke to us in

Arabic and they spoke to us in French and we would eat Moroccan food all the time.

Is it your hope that there's other women, people like you from Morocco who may be living

somewhere else that can see themselves?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I didn't really have anyone like me to listen to growing up to

and that kind of had that both world situation going on. And I hope that people that are like me

or people that are just even experiencing different cultures,

whether whatever part of the world they're from and whatever part of the world they may have

immigrated to, to see that it really doesn't matter where you are in the world,

as long as you embrace who you are in your culture and you want to do what you want to do in your

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