Faouzia

Faouzia Ouihya (born: ), known professionally as Faouzia, is a Moroccan-Canadian YouTuber, musician, and beauty modelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlbjZLqCUS0.
She is also well known for her first extended play, Stripped, which released on August 6, 2020.
== Personal life ==
=== Early life ===
Faouzia was born on July 5, 2000 in Casablanca, Morocco to Muslim parents. At a year old, her family moved to Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Manitoba, before setting in the rural town of Carman, Manitoba.https://www.manitobamusic.com/news/read,article/6815/on-the-rise-faouzia-is-one-up-and-comer-you-won-t-be-able-to-misshttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/at-17-morocco-born-manitoban-makes-it-big-in-the-musiccity/article36279637/
She has two sisters: Samia (one of her managers) and Kenza (her photographer)https://twitter.com/PharmacistsMB/status/1349401138404192256.
Growing up as a Muslim, she often travelled to her native country. Faouzia said she feels "very connected to the country and the region [North Africa]. Even though I grew up in Canada, I grew up eating Moroccan food, [and] wearing Moroccan attire."https://www.gqmiddleeast.com/culture/faouzia-makes-her-move In an interview, she revealed she felt excluded as a child saying "maybe not just fitting in is the biggest thing I've had to overcome". Her first composition was inspired by that feeling of exclusion, in which she embraced other people's differences.
Her passion of music began at age 4 after seeing her sister Samia playing the piano, wishing she could learn how to play said instrumenthttps://www.facebook.com/alistnationmag/photos/faouzia-in-september-issue-of-alistnation/3144735368932772. At age 5, she would begin writing songs and poems, and began playing the piano at age 6. She later studied how to play guitar and violinhttps://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Faouzia-Shares-Powerful-New-Single-The-Road-20200122.
She also speaks fluent English, French and Arabic, the latter mostly used to talk with her familyhttps://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/faouzia-music-tiktok-interview.
=== Music takeoff ===
At age 15, she won Song of the Year, the Audience Award, and Grand Pix at the 2015 La Chicane Éléctriquehttps://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/747426/faouzia-knock-on-my-door-itunes-spotify-google-play. She began posting her songs and other covers on YouTube shortly after, leading to a contract with Paradigm Talent Agency.https://winnipegsun.com/2017/06/30/provinces-bright-young-talent-ready-for-the-fireworks-to-start/wcm/f77334d6-6652-4ec2-9897-9f7df82ecc45 Thanks to her early success, she released her debut single Knock On My Door on November 1, 2015, putting it on various platforms.https://www.facebook.com/faouziaofficial/posts/knock-on-my-door-is-finally-out-now-on-itunes-google-play-spotify-youtube-and-mo/528764833954046/
In 2016, she won second place in Canada's Walk of Fame Emerging Artist Mentor Program.https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/say-hello-to-canadas-next-singing-sensation-394070461.html In 2017, she was the recipient of the Grand Prize at the Nashville Unsigned Only music competition. During that year, she collaborated with fellow Manitoban artist Matt Epp on their single The Sound, and won the International Songwriting Competition, the largest soundwriting competition in the world.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/carman-manitoba-faouzia-paradigm-1.4295905https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/manitobas-faouzia-takes-unsigned-only-grand-prize-443377843.html
She also performed with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra at The Forks, Winnipeg celebrating the 150th anniversary of Canada, also having a feature in David Guetta's studio album 7. In a French language interview with Le Matin, Guetta noticed her "great voice, powerful vibrato, and unique style" for why he chose her for his albumhttps://www.lematin.ch/story/david-guetta-je-me-sens-un-homme-libre-940740103138. Faouzia recalled she "was still in high school when I heard the news that there was a possibility of me working with him", and affirmed it was "one of my proudest career moments, so far." At that time, she enrolled into the University of Manitoba, majoring in computer engineering.https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/07/02/show-times/columnists-show-times/meet-faouzia-moroccan-canadian-rising-star/736993
She was also featured in the song Money on French rapper Ninho's studio album Destin. The said song got certified Gold Single on July 9, 2019.
===Later career===
In early 2020, she was invited by Kelly Clarkson to translate her song "I Dare You" to Moroccan Arabic, which was released on April 16, 2020. About a month later, Swedish EDM duo Galantis invited her to feature in their song I Fly for the soundtrack of the movie SCOOB!.https://weraveyou.com/2020/05/galantis-and-faouzia-release-track-i-fly-to-accompany-new-scooby-doo-film/
Faouzia released her first extended play on August 6, 2020. It features 6 stripped (acoustic version) songs, 5 of which were previously released, 1 of which is a new track under the name "100 Bandaids". To promote the new EP, Faouzia performed the tracks live in a concert on August 20.
On November 5, 2020, she released the single Minefields alongside American singer-song writer John Legend. In July 2021, Faouzia revealed that she was working on her debut studio album for a few years.https://hypebae.com/2021/7/faouzia-hero-single-music-video-moroccan-canadian-artist-interview She also released the singles Don't Tell Me I'm Pretty, Hero and Puppet.
== Discography ==
=== Extended plays ===
* Stripped (2020)
=== Singles ===
* Knock on My Door (2015)
* My Heart's Grave (2017)
* Closed Door (2017)
* Bad Dreams (Stripped) (2018)
* This Mountain (2018)
* Exothermic (Piano Version) (2019)
* Born Without A Heart (2019)
* You Don't Even Know Me (2019)
* Tears Of Gold (2019)
* Tears Of Gold (Stripped) (2020)
* The Road (2020)
* Wake Me When It's Over (2020)
* Secrets (2020)
* How It All Works Out (2020)
* How It All Works Out (Stripped) (2020)
* Minefields (2020)
* Don't Tell Me I'm Pretty (2021)
* Hero (2021)
* Puppet (2021) 
==References==
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