.SnohAalegra opens up: 'I'm at home on any stage that I’m on. That’s where I feel like I’m welcome, because people came there to see me and they want me there.'
As a child in Sweden—where she was born and raised—Aalegra was determined to be an artist, but she was never the most outgoing kid in her class. "I was always dancing around and always wanted to entertain around the house. In school.. I was kind of to myself," she said. "I was bullied a lot, from third grade up until the end of high school, and it kind of shaped me into having low self esteem that I had to really work on in my adult years.
Eventually, Aalegra relocated from Stockholm to Los Angeles to pursue her music career—a move that required some getting used to. "It was a shock how people are pretty loud in the U.S. You’re supposed to be loud and kind of braggadocious with an ‘I’m the shit’ kind of attitude. That’s not so common [in Sweden]," she laughed. "People are super humble and kind of quiet when they walk in a room.
Complicating matters is the fact that Aalegra is, as she puts it, a "double immigrant": her parents came to Sweden from Iran before she was born. Often, she gets the question "Where are you from?" followed by the inevitable, "No, where are you"It’s trippy to be born and raised in a country where you’re still looked at as if you’re not from there," she said. "Sweden is a beautiful country.
Finding role models was also a struggle. "Recently I realized I never had anyone who looked like me to look up to; there aren’t many Middle Eastern women or artists at the forefront of pop culture," she said. "Now more and more people are reaching out saying they look up to me for what I’m doing. It’s a great feeling and a lot of responsibility."
These days, whether in Stockholm or LA, she's finally feeling that sense of belonging that always evaded her."It’s not nice to feel like you don’t know where your home is," she said. "That’s been a thing for me— struggling, wondering where home is." Now, she said, she's "realized home is not a place, I'm at home on any stage that I’m on. That’s where I feel like I’m welcome, because people came there to see me and they want me there.
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