In conversation with mightbehawa, the 18-year-old who's about to take music by storm.
January 10, 2020 4:05 pmshow in Florence, Italy yesterday—but her story actually begins at the New York Philharmonic.
That’s where, in 5th grade, she was chosen to participate in a youth program that allowed her to pair up with composers from the Philharmonic, studying with them in Lincoln Center. The program also gave her a chance to participate in contests, submitting music she composed for awards. “I kid you not, I never lost a contest,” 19-year-old Hawa, who was born in Berlin and raised in New York City, says from her hotel room in Florence, the morning after theHer musical talent took her all over the world—she traveled to Europe, Asia and Africa with the Philharmonic, composing and taking classes. Her sharpest memory: going to Shanghai at 12 years old to hear that city’s Philharmonic perform a song she composed.
“These were people who had never heard of me, had never heard of my music, who had never even seen me,” she remembers. But the house was packed nonetheless— and Hawa opted to sit in the crowd instead of remaining onstage for the show. “I’m looking and I’m actually seeing people enjoying it,” she says. “When I was that young and people would tell me, ‘Oh this is great, this is good.
“Even though it wasn’t me on stage singing, I still got that feeling of love. All I care about is people having respect for my art. What’s the reason to do anything if you don’t want the most respect, and you don’t want to be the best at it?”
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