Chopy Fatah

Chopy Fatah
Chopy Fatah
	Iraqi Kurdish
Occupations	Singer-songwriter; TV host;
Spouse	Chato Fado (m. 2017)
Years active	2000–present
Website	http://www.chopy.krd/

Chopy Shakir Fatah

Kurdish singer. She was born in Kirkuk, Iraq

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Career

Her family emigrated to the Netherlands in 1988. She released her first album titled Çît Naw Binêm in 2003. After emigrating to the Netherlands, she joined a Dutch choir school in 1990 and also attended a music school in 1996 where she focused on singing under the supervision of her teachers. In 1999, she attended the Kurdish Music Academy in Germany where she studied under the supervision of the Kurdish music teacher Wirya Ahmad. She performed on stage for the first time in The Hague, Netherlands in 2000. Chopy has released a total of 5 Kurdish music albums and 3 English singles "Draw the Line", "My Homeland" and "Think of Me".

Chopy has been interviewed by many Kurdish and Iraqi newspapers and magazines, as well as by newspapers from Turkey (

EénVandaag and Goudmijn made reports about Chopy's life. She has also performed in Jörgen Raymanns

TV show 'Zo Raymann' (Raymanns Suikerfeest).

In 2008 Chopy became the cultural Ambassador of Asiacell Telecom Company. This is one of the most important Iraqi telecommunications company that caters to more than 9 million subscribers around Iraq. The result of this was that thousands of Chopy's (Asia Cell) billboards were placed around Iraq.

Chopy has performed in

Sulaimaniyah

and Van.

Chopy was one of the first singers to perform in the Iraqi city of

Massoud Barzani

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Chopy supported in 2009 the

2011 Van earthquake). On 21 March 2013 she held a performance in the Turkish Kurdistani city of Diyarbakır (Amed) in front of 2 million people to support peace and freedom for the Kurds in Turkey

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In October 2013 Chopy was chosen to be the Kurdish flag bearer for the One Young World Summit' in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Kurdish flag was for the first time hoisted at the event, alongside flags of 190 other countries attending the summit.