Nemahsis

Nemah Hasan was born in Ontario, Canada and raised on a farm in the town of Milton.^[2][3] She is the daughter of a Palestinian immigrant.^[4]

Hasan began her career on TikTok, posting beauty and fashion videos aimed at Muslim women alongside occasional videos of her singing Adele covers.^[1] After being exploited by a company that hired her for an advertising campaign and then failed to pay her, in June 2021 she released her first original single and video "What If I Took It Off for You?", about social attitudes toward Muslim women who wear the hijab.^[5] She followed up with the singles "Paper Thin" in October 2021 and "Dollar Signs" in January 2022,^[6] before releasing the EP eleven achers in March 2022.^[7]

She followed up with the new non-EP singles "Criminal" in October 2022,^[8] and "I Wanna Be Your Right Hand" in February 2023.^[9]

In May 2024, She released her first single, "Stick of Gum", for her upcoming album. The song's music video was shot entirely in her family's hometown of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.^[10] The single was selected by Spotify editors as one of the best songs of 2024.^[11]

On September 13, Hasan independently released her debut album Verbathim.^[12][13] Hasan stated the title "Verbathim is just the word verbatim except someone is grabbing my tongue" to symbolize the censorship she has faced.^[14]

In 2025, Nemahsis won the Juno Award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year for Verbathim at the 2025 Juno Awards.^[15]

On October 12, 2023, soon after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, the singer shared on social media that she had been dropped by her label, stating "My label just dropped me, a Palestinian artist, for being pro-Palestine".^[16] Her subsequent posts include a rendition of "Team", by New Zealand artist Lorde, with images from Gaza before and after the bombardments.^[17][18]