BODUR on music, identity, and refusing to blend in

BODUR on music, identity, and refusing to blend in

What Made Me — In this series, we ask artists and rebels about the about the forces and experiences that shaped who they are. Today, it’s SWANA-championing pop experimentalist BODUR. To open ‘MORNING [9-8]’, the lead single from BODUR’s debut album MAQAM, twanging strings are plucked in an oddball, triplet rhythm. Recorded by BODUR herself playing the Oud – a traditional middle eastern lute-adjacent instrument, which she learnt how to play for t…