Remember Fatima? The soft-voiced singer with a mixed heritage mentioned here? She is back. She will be singing at the Border’s in South Coast Plaza today Friday evening at 7pm.
Fatima will sing some American standards, as well as a number of Vietnamese songs for which she wrote English lyrics. Some samples on her MySpace here.
This mix-and-match may be reflective of her own background: Fatima is 1/4 Asian Indian, her father is half Indian and a Muslim, her mother a successful Vietnamese teen-pop singer and a Buddhist, and so is Fatima. At 2 years old, Fatima moved from Vietnam to France, lived there for 7 years and then moved to California and has been here every since.
Fatima’s father Yersin Mougammadou is named after the Swiss-French physician who discovered the plague bacteria, and who came to live, work, and then die in what was French Indochina. A restaurateur by trade, Fatima’s father is probably the most well-read person in Little Saigon. Any book, magazine, newspaper, whatever that’s printed with Vietnamese words, he reads them. And can critically analyze them.
“A restaurateur by trade, Fatima’s father is probably the most well-read person in Little Saigon. Any book, magazine, newspaper, whatever that’s printed with Vietnamese words, he reads them.”
That’s the definition of the “most-read”, not the “most WELL-read”, hehe. Does he read the Bolsavik’s blog? If not, then he’s NOT well-read! Haha! BTW, whatever happened to the restaurant? I used to enjoy ch? giò there, but it’s Pho Nam Dinh now? Are they retired?