14 Facts About Chopy Fatah

Chopy Shakir Fatah is a contemporary Kurdish singer.

Chopy Fatah released her first album titled Cit Naw Binem in 2003.

Chopy Fatah performed on stage for the first time in The Hague, Netherlands in 2000.

Chopy Fatah has been interviewed by many Kurdish and Iraqi newspapers and magazines, as well as by newspapers from Turkey, Dutch newspapers Algemeen Dagblad, NRC Next, Trouw, Nederlands Dagblad and the Italian weekly women's fashion and celebrity gossip magazine Grazia.

Chopy Fatah has performed in Jorgen Raymanns TV show 'Zo Raymann'.

In 2008 Chopy Fatah became the cultural Ambassador of Asiacell Telecom Company.

The result of this was that thousands of Chopy Fatah's billboards were placed around Iraq.

Chopy Fatah has performed in Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Greece, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates.

Uniquely of Chopy Fatah is the fact that she is known in different parts of Kurdistan because she sings in Kurdish-Sorani and Kurdish-Kurmanci.

Chopy Fatah was one of the first singers to perform in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk after the fall off Saddam's dictatorship.

Chopy Fatah stated that she did so because of her love for her hometown and her many fans.

Chopy Fatah supported in 2009 the Democratic Society Party DTP by sending an official letter to its leader Ahmet Turk where she explained that she will do everything in her power to support the peaceful solution of the Kurdish issue in Turkey.

Chopy Fatah was one of the Kurdish singers that held concerts in Iraqi Kurdistan to raise money for the Kurdish victims of the Van earthquake that struck the city in southeastern Turkey in October 2011.

In October 2013 Chopy Fatah was chosen to be the Kurdish flag bearer for the One Young World Summit' in Johannesburg, South Africa.