| Capital: | € 10 million |
| Age: | 38 |
| Born: | December 24, 1981 |
| Country of origin: | Iran |
| Source of wealth: | rapper |
| Last updated: | 2022 |
Short introduction
Xatar (primary name: Giwar Hajabi, born on December 24, 1981 in Kuh-e Qala, Kurdistan Province, Iran) is a German rapper of Kurdish origin. The artist name “Xatar” method chance in Kurdish.
Early life
His father is the tune professor Eghbal Hajabi. In the early 1980s, his dad and mom fled with him to close by Iraq. At that time, the primary Gulf War broke out among the 2 Middle East countries. After Saddam Hussein’s regime attacked the Kurdish minority in Iraq, his dad and mom have been additionally tortured and detained. He became held close to Baghdad for 3 months.
Career
At the quit of the nineties, Hajabi commenced rapping and generating beats withinside the recording room of a children middle below the pseudonym Xatar, the Kurdish time period for “chance”. In 2007 he based the label Alles or Nix Records, which signed a distribution agreement with Groove Attack. The first artists he signed have been Samy and SSIO. His first album, Alles oder nix, became launched on the quit of November 2008. In addition to his label colleagues Samy and SSIO, different visitor contributions may be seen.
In 2011, Alles or Nix Records signed the rapper Schwesta Ewa. He additionally labored on his 2d album, performed instrumental tune withinside the evenings and dictated his lyrics on a dictation machine. He then mailed the tapes to his studio. Although Hajabi became ultimately stuck in solitary confinement and detained, the album became finished and supplemented with the aid of using visitor contributions from rappers which include Farid Bang, Nate57, Celo & Abdi, Capo and Eko Fresh and launched on his label in April 2012. Album No. 415, named after his prisoner wide variety, entered the German album charts at wide variety 19. It reached wide variety 23 in Switzerland and wide variety fifty two in Austria. In addition to No. 415, Alles or Nix Records additionally posted the albums Spezial Material and BB.UM.SS.N with the aid of using SSIO, for the duration of Xatar’s detention.
A month after its release, he launched Schwesta Ewa’s debut album Kurwa thru his label. At the identical time he began out the manufacturing of his 0.33 album, for which he became once more capable of win some of famous guests. In May 2015, Baba of all Babas got here out and reached no 1 withinside the German charts. It reached wide variety three in Austria and Switzerland. In the identical year, Xatar opened the hookah bar Bar Noon in Cologne collectively with SSIO collectively with SSIO and different friends. On October 12, 2015, he posted his autobiography Alles oder Nix (The Everything or Nothing) at riva Verlag: We say the sector is yours. Xatar offered the ee-e book on the Frankfurt Book Fair and on television. He additionally based Kopfticker Records, a 2d label for rappers who aren’t appropriate for whatever or not anything. The first artist became a plus maker together along with his album harvest.
Career Highlights
In early 2016, Xatar seemed as a part of the The Voice Of The Voiceless advantage marketing campaign withinside the Columbia Hall in Berlin to finance an orphanage in northern Iraq. In May 2016, Xatar and Haftbefehl introduced their joint album The Holland Job with an marketing and marketing marketing campaign as a part of the TV display Studio Amani. The Berlin label Four Music launched it on August 12, 2016. The collaborative album became no 1 at the charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Xatar’s debut album accused him of endangering younger people. Everything or not anything has been on List A of the listed media on the grounds that February 26, 2010. Seven songs have been labeled with the aid of using the Federal Office for Media Harmful to Young Persons as “dangerous to younger people”. The songs seem “brutal” and evoke “violence”. From the Review Board’s factor of view, Xatar provides the “use of violence as worth of imitation”. The first character attitude offers it a “version person for younger recipients”. The “as a substitute descriptive, partially socially important texts of the opposite songs can not create a widespread context that could be appropriate for taking over the index-applicable statements and giving them a distinct meaning.”