Posted on 04/17/2006 4:36:38 PM PDT by Ptarmigan
Adam Sweeting meets the first ever boy-band from Iraq
The promise of good news from Iraq sounds like Downing Street propaganda, but for the past six months a five-piece Iraqi pop group has been in London preparing to deliver exactly that. Unknown To No One - UTN1 for short - are desperate to tell the rest of the world that there's more to their homeland than bombings, kidnappings and civil war.
"We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV," says Hassan Ali, vocalist and guitarist. "That's what we want to tell people. We're the same as you, we can sing, we can speak different languages."
"In each country, there's a small minority who make problems and troubles, stealing, killing, smuggling," adds Shant Garabedian, one of the group's co-founders. "Unfortunately, all the media in Iraq capture all these bad things, but they never show the good things and the progress and the educated people."
Their website seems to be down and down since 2004
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