- Capital: € 10 million
- Age: 38
- Born: December 24, 1981
- Country of origin: Iran
- Source of wealth: rapper
- Last updated: 2023
Short introduction
Xatar (essential 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” way chance in Kurdish.
Early life
His father is the song professor Eghbal Hajabi. In the early 1980s, his mother and father 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 mother and father had been additionally tortured and detained. He become held close to Baghdad for 3 months.
Career
At the quit of the nineties, Hajabi started out rapping and generating beats withinside the recording room of a adolescents 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 settlement with Groove Attack. The first artists he signed had been Samy and SSIO. His first album, Alles oder nix, become 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 song withinside the evenings and dictated his lyrics on a dictation machine. He then mailed the tapes to his studio. Although Hajabi become ultimately stuck in solitary confinement and detained, the album become finished and supplemented via way of means of visitor contributions from rappers which includes Farid Bang, Nate57, Celo & Abdi, Capo and Eko Fresh and launched on his label in April 2012. Album No. 415, named after his prisoner quantity, entered the German album charts at quantity 19. It reached quantity 23 in Switzerland and quantity fifty two in Austria. In addition to No. 415, Alles or Nix Records additionally posted the albums Spezial Material and BB.UM.SS.N via way of means of SSIO, at some stage in Xatar`s detention.
A month after its release, he launched Schwesta Ewa`s debut album Kurwa thru his label. At the equal time he began out the manufacturing of his 0.33 album, for which he become 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 quantity three in Austria and Switzerland. In the equal 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 arena is yours. Xatar supplied 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 some thing or not anything. The first artist become 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 become 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 account that February 26, 2010. Seven songs had been categorised via way of means of 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 affords the “use of violence as worth of imitation”. The first man or woman attitude offers it a “version individual for younger recipients”. The “instead descriptive, partially socially essential texts of the opposite songs can not create a standard context that could be appropriate for taking on the index-applicable statements and giving them a unique meaning.”