Chyno (Nasser Shorbaji) is an independent Syrian-Filipino Rapper and producer based in Beirut. In July 2015 he released his solo album “Making Music to Feel at Home”. The tracks talks about growing up with complex identities and multiple backgrounds. During the two year process of producing the album and the war raging on in Syria, Chyno found identity in “not fitting in” a feeling that many Syrians share with him, turning the search for individuality into a feeling and way of belonging. The album also tackles issues of dealing with feeling of guilt many carry for leaving and trying to make a better life, somewhere “else”, in more peaceful countries, where life is more peaceful. Chyno has rapped mostly in Arabic with his band Fareeq El Atrash, while is solo project is mainly in English.


Moona Moon (Mona El Omari) is a spoken word artist, writer, performer and political activist. She hails from Kufr Assad/Ruhrpott and is currently based in Berlin. She is pursuing a PhD in Sociology focussing on arabic Hip Hop and Spoken Word Poetry. Moona Moon performs in English mainly. Listen here to her powerful poems.

Jumọke Adeyanju was raised by Yorùbá parents in Aachen, Germany. She is actively engaged in the Hip Hop scene as a dancer and cultural advocate in Zanzibar and beyond. Based in Berlin, she organizes and hosts her event POETRY MEETS Hip Hop. She writes and performs her poems in German, English, Kiswahili and Yorùbá at various occasions.

 
Barbra Breeze Anderson is a performance poet, designer and project coordinator from Zimbabwe. She entered the spoken word scene in 2009 and since then has performed at various events and festivals in Zimbabwe and southern Africa. Her poems are descriptive and lyrical narratives of discovery: free verses that explore spiritual ‘thought passages’. As a storyteller she defines recurring themes in her poetry as those of self-discovery and awakening; all forming part of a journey that explores the subtleness of existence.