Veiled Moroccan Rapper Challenges Discrimination on Spanish ’Got Talent’

Cases of discrimination against women exist everywhere in the world, and particularly in Spain where several Muslim and migrant women are victims of it and suffer in silence. It is to denounce this double discrimination against Muslim women that Miss Raïssa, a 24-year-old Moroccan living in Barcelona, performed a rap song on the "Got Talent" stage, reports Vertele.

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"People can’t conceive the idea that I can belong to two cultures: I feel Moroccan but also Spanish. I have received a lot of criticism for doing what I do. Racist Spaniards ask me to go back to my country, and Moroccans think I’m not an exemplary Muslim because I make music. Whatever I do, I’m criticized," Raïssa indignantly.

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"My dream is to communicate the beautiful reality that we have... and so cruel at times. And that we all be a little more aware of this reality," said the young woman who delivered her flow against all discrimination on the "Got Talent" stage: "Immigrant and Muslim woman. With veil and Catalan. I have everything to be criticized. Every day, I am the subject of criticism, I am used to it, I dodge with empathy to all these bullets," she sings.

Miss Raisa received three yeses from the jury. "We are all unanimous about your passion for music, your talent. It is a luxury to have had an interpretation from you," one of the jurors, Risto Mejide, told her as a congratulation.