It’s surely something that we are not used to seeing, a metal guitarist wearing burqa.
Gisele Marie has been fronting her brother’s heavy metal band Spectrus since 2012.
Meet Gisele Marie, a Muslim woman and professional heavy metal musician from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Rock on, sister! pic.twitter.com/l0ObTKgvIO
— Shafiqah Othman (@sfqomhz) September 23, 2015
As euronews report, Gisele was born in Sao Paulo and comes from German Catholic parents. She converted to Islam in 2009 and before that, she was a practising Wicca, a modern pagan witchcraft religion.
“People do not expect to see a Muslim woman who uses a Burqa, practices the religion properly and is a professional guitarist who plays in a Heavy Metal band,” admits Marie.
“So many people are shocked by it, but other people are curious and find it interesting, and others think that it is cool.”
As she admits there are some Muslims who disapprove of what she does, but there are others who are regulars at her shows.
This muslim heavy metal guitar player proves burqas and head-bangers can go hand-in-hand (from our @Vine) https://t.co/cLBkcEIIB9
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) September 24, 2015
