Worship Artist / Singer-Songwriter Topping Gospel Music Charts Is Actually a Muslim?
Musical artist Nouri is a Kurdish singer and songwriter that was born and raised in a Syrian refugee camp. Remaining there until she was three, her family was ultimately given refugee status in New Zealand, where she grew up. She later moved to L.A., where she lived out the back of her car, before finally hitting it big in the music industry with her 2018 debut album ‘Where Do We Go from Here,’ which hit #1 on several charts and gained international attention.
Building on her successes, after sharing multiple covers of worship songs on her TikTok account, she recently released the original worship song ‘Change In Your Name’ this past summer- a slow, soaring gospel ballad that placed #10 on iTunes Gospel Charts and reached #4 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Songs. Receiving millions of streams, it now sits at 15th place half a year later. She explained to Headliner Hub:
I was talking to God one night and I was praying, and this song – I swear – it just comes out of nowhere. It was: you give me purpose. That’s how it started. After two hours, the song was kind of written. I wanted to write a worship song, and I would say God helped me write that song, because I was really looking for an answer.
She also told Wonderland magazine, when asked “How has your personal faith journey influenced the lyrics and emotional depth of the single?”
My love for God has and always will be a part of what I do. I wouldn’t have been able to write this song without him and I wouldn’t be where I am in life and in music without God. Ever since I started strengthening my relationship with him it feels like making music comes so fluidly.
She has professed her love for worship music in several interviews, and her social feed looks like something you’d find straight off the average Bethel Church College student’s Instagram page.
The problem? Nouri is not a Christian, but a Muslim, and the God she’s singing to is not the God of the Bible but rather Allah. She explains this in a TikTok video when answering the question ‘Which God are your worshipping?”
“I wrote (Change In Your Name) in a way where anybody could listen to the song and worship to it. I do believe there is one God, and that’s who I’m singing to, but whether you’re Muslim, Christian, the song was written in a way where you could all listen to it”
She’s also explicitly stated she’s a Muslim who loves singing worship songs:
We fully expect to see this song playing all across churches any day now.
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