eBow

Deutschrap

Ebow (Real name: Ebru Düzgün; born February 8, 1990 in Munich) is a German rapper of Kurdish origin, who currently lives in Vienna. Ebow's grandparents came to Germany as guest workers, her mother, who had attended a grammar school in Turkey, did not follow them until the age of 17. Like her parents, Ebow is Alevi. Although her family is of Kurdish descent, only Turkish was spoken at home. She studied architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Munich and lived with her mother and grandmother in Munich's Westend. She first rapped in Munich's Bahnhofsviertel, in laundromats, supermarkets and the tram, before performing on stages and taking part in festivals, such as the on3 festival of the Bavarian Radio in 2011, the Sound of Munich Now Festival in 2012 or the Schamrock Festival of The Poets in 2014. In the music program Heimatsound of the Bavarian Television in April 2015 she appeared with the songs Paradise and Vay. As blaqtea, she has been part of the trio Gaddafi Gals since 2016. In 2010 she wrote and sang the title melody Ich habe Wanderlust (I Have Wanderlust) for the film documentary Daughters of the Awakening by Munich director Uli Bez, in which migrant women tell their lives in Germany, including Ebow and her mother. With the self-produced half-hour video mixtape Habibi's Love and Wars (2012), Ebow created a style influenced by oriental sounds, mixed with electro, which she describes as alternative hip-hop. For the first time, she packaged social reali...