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Lydia Canaan is a Lebanese singer-songwriter, recording artist, poet, activist, and musical pioneer〔 widely regarded as the first rock star of the Middle East.〔〔〔〔〔〔〔 A mezzo-soprano〔 noted by ''Billboard'' magazine as having a "four-octave range and perfect pitch",〔〔 Canaan's unique style fuses Middle-Eastern quarter notes and microtones with anglophone rock.〔 The first internationally successful Lebanese recording artist,〔George Hayek, ''Al-Hayat'', No. 12,513, June 3, 1997〕〔Mireille Khalife, ''Al-Hayat'', No. 13,732, October 16, 2000〕〔(Lydia Canaan Receiving Lebanese International Success Award )〕 she was dubbed by MTV Europe as "the diva from the Middle East";〔 her fans and supporters have affectionately entitled her the "Lioness of Lebanon".〔 Canaan's unprecedented〔 musical debut〔〔Hala Habib, ''Society'', No. 3, February 1997〕 defied convention,〔 social stigma,〔(Press Release, Pulse-8 Records Ltd., January 1995 )〕 socio-religious authorities,〔 and broke millennium-old gender barriers.〔Claire High, ''Arabian Woman'', No. 21, September 2000〕 According to ''Arabian Woman'' magazine: "As...A girl who grew up in the midst of a bloody civil war...Canaan was breaking down seemingly insurmountable barriers...She rocked the establishment".〔 A rebel,〔 Canaan began her career by risking her life to perform amidst enemy military attacks in protest of the Lebanese Civil War,〔 literally holding concerts in vicinities of Lebanon which were simultaneously being bombed.〔 ''Society'' magazine writes: "In a small country that was ripped by war, there was this young girl making a difference".〔 As noted by ''The Gulf Today'': "It is incredible that amidst the state of civil war that existed in Lebanon at that time, when most people had no idea if they would see another day, she managed to keep her ambitions alive".〔 In Canaan's own words: "We have an aura about us which becomes stronger when you have faith in yourself. And when your aura is strong, evil dare not touch you."〔 ==Early life and education== Born and raised in Lebanon to the Eastern Orthodox Canaan family of Mount Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War, her native village of Brummana lists her as a celebrity. Canaan studied at Brummana High School (BHS) and later at Lebanese American University (LAU). From a young age, music, singing, and dancing were Canaan's essential outlet and catharsis. Raised in a conservative family,〔 Canaan's father forbid her artistry and prohibited her from having a musical education〔 and formal training. However, Canaan, a native Arabic and French speaker, defied him, and early in life cultivated the unusual ability to compose and store melodies, lyrics, and poetry in English – unaided by instruments – by means of eidetic memory.〔''Asharq'', No. 13,855, June 7, 1995〕〔 At the age of eight-years-old, Canaan, a literary child prodigy,〔 was awarded the first place prize (in a contest in which all grades competed against each other) by her French elementary school, College des Saints-Coeurs, Bikfaya, for a poem she composed about a child who wept for being scolded for trivial matters such as staining her fingers with ink when she writes. Her father ignored this early achievement.〔 As reported by the newspaper ''Campus'': "For Lydia Canaan's first gig, she had to throw her trademark short rockish black leather skirt and studs out of her bedroom window in Brummana, put on a long skirt, lie to her conservative father about where she was going, and, after changing into her leather gear, singing her teenage heart out as Angel with the band Equation".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lydia Canaan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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