Hair & Makeup: Nicole Wittman, Photo Assistant: Dylan Pearce It was a freezing night in February 2019, and onstage in Berlin as her alter ego, Shaneera, Fatima Al Qadiri was magnificently disdainful. Over the sound of her nimble, joyous club tracks—a mutant hybrid of UK grime music and the percussion of the Persian Gulf—she flicked her long black hair with venom. I wove through the heaving nightclub crowd to get a closer look. Her face was caked in layers of stage makeup but I could still make out a This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Two Buy Now Related Stories Music Issue 51 Zach Condon A check-in with the Beirut musician. Music Issue 43 Cat Power Musician Chan Marshall opens the door to a different dimension. Music Issue 41 Jon Batiste The band leader on his genre-busting year. Music Issue 39 Erika de Casier In conversation with a romantic soul. Music Issue 36 Kali Malone Meet the musician reimagining organ music. Music Issue 35 Devendra Banhart An interview with the soft-spoken pied piper of psychedelic Bohemia.
