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Yasin Mahamoud has topped the Swedish Spotify chart several times during 2020. He was named an “artist of the future” by Swedish radio, and in December he was nominated twice for the P3 Gold Gala.
But at the same time, the artist has now been arrested. He was arrested on New Year’s Eve, suspected of being branded a kidnapper against another famous artist.
In “Morgonpasset” on P3, SR’s music manager Anna-Karin Larsson is asked if Yasin can win awards at the Gold Gala even if he’s convicted.
– Exactly what happens, we have to talk more about that. But the nominations are based on the music and I would be surprised if we change it, he says and continues:
– You have to keep a cool head and think about what is what. And don’t act in court, because it would be very strange if we act as a special court for things we don’t know about.
Bali: “He’s involved”
Riksdag politician Hanif Bali (M) is critical. He believes that in Yasin’s case it is not possible to separate music from suspicions.
– It is one thing if an artist has a complicated past or does something outside of his art that is reprehensible. But Yasin’s entire musical career is a crime. That’s what he sings and what he does and what his gang does, he says.
Expressen’s culture critic Viktor Malm wrote a column on Monday with the headline “Therefore, P3 should not eliminate Yasin.”
There it says:
“If you wish to award an award at an arts venue, the arts venue cannot be redeemed as legal. And when you judge music, of course, you cannot begin to judge or measure the privacy of the author.. “
