Time.news – For 80 years ‘Bella Ciao’ has been talking about itself: for the controversies at every anniversary of April 25th, but also, more recently, for the many versions that have been made of it. In Spain it was popularized – indeed pop – by the successful TV series ‘La casa di carta’ and a few days ago Laura Pausini had to explain why she did not want to sing it during a Spanish TV program.
But today resonates on the smartphones of young Iranians who pass a version in Farsi that has become a sort of anthem of the protests against the obligation of the veil and against the regime of the ayatollahs.
“Either all together or even alone / beautiful hello beautiful cioa / we wake up in the moonlight / we who will stay awake until the next day / in the end our hands will break / the chain of oppression all over the world” say the verses sung by two very young sisters: Once and Samin Bolouri. Two voices and a guitar: the song of revolt has already made more than 40 thousand views on YouTube and SoundCloud and 80 thousand on Spotify.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DU9DzuV3GU
Who are Behin and Samin Bolouri
Behin, 28, graduated with a degree in theater costume designer at the Faculty of Art and Architecture in Tehran and with her 20-year-old sister Samin constitutes a professional pop duo who has been performing for five years by performing covers of Iranian pop songs from the 60s and 70s, or the golden age of Persian pop music. They performed at the 2015 Teheran Music Nights Festival during which they also sang in Italian.