Marrakech – I’ve always believed that we spend our twenties trying to unlearn what our childhoods taught us about survival. 

You know — soften your voice, hide the curls, blend in at all costs. But what if everything we spent years trying to hide is exactly what makes us worth listening to?

That’s the quiet rebellion behind “Tigmi” (Home) or ⵜⵉⴳⵎⵉ in Amzigh, the haunting and gorgeously layered new EP from Boshra — the music project of Moroccan-Egyptian singer-songwriter Dina Boshra, in collaboration with Belgian-Polish producers Raf and Ben Cyran. 

It’s alt-pop wrapped in emotional cinema, or R&B blending with Arabic heritage at a midnight intersection. It’s what happens when a woman stops whispering and starts remembering.

When Dina released the first single, “Home,” it wasn’t just a debut. It was a reckoning. 

A love letter in four languages — Darija, Egyptian Arabic, French, and English — that sounds like what identity feels like: confusing, fluid, poetic, and deeply personal.

The video? Shot in Morocco with her family. The energy? One part spiritual memoir, one part generational tribute. Dina doesn’t just sing to her past — she duets with it.

And while “Home” opens the EP, it also opens a wound many of us share but rarely name. 

The song is a dialogue between the girl who left and the woman still searching for where she belongs. 

For Dina, that place was once in the arms of her great-grandmother Fatna — or as she likes to call her; Mouima, who helped raise her in Morocco before she moved to Belgium at age six. 

The EP’s title, “Tigmi,” means “home” in Tamazight, Fatna’s mother tongue. 

A fitting tribute to the matriarch who made Dina feel seen long before the world could.

But let’s not get too soft — this isn’t just nostalgia dipped in synths. 

Boshra is bold, cinematic, and unexpected. It’s the kind of project that doesn’t fit into a genre box, because it was never trying to. 

It’s also a reminder that music, like identity, isn’t meant to be neat. It’s meant to be real.

After nearly three years of silence, AND a Eurovision 2025 selection (go bestie!), the trio didn’t return with a polished pop package. They came back with a story. The kind you carry like a scar and a secret. The kind that makes you ask: what if the pieces of myself I buried were actually the most sacred?

Each track on “Tigmi” unfolds a chapter of Dina’s story — or as she described it, “an open journal to the world.” 

The first single, “Home,” is the starting point: a return to roots and a tribute to the women who raised her.

“In The Game” (September), Dina explores the pressure to be the “perfect” daughter in an immigrant household — to conform, adapt, and shrink — until she finally chooses herself over the expectations imposed on her.

“Delirium” (October) dives into the messy, disorienting depths of losing control during a dark period of depression, surrounded by the wrong people and energy. It’s raw, honest, and unfiltered.

“Reveal It” (November) reflects on the courage required to show up fully as yourself — no masks, no performances — just pure truth, even when it’s uncomfortable.

The EP closes with “All For You” (December), the most vulnerable track. 

It tells the story of Dina’s physical and emotional journey through a complicated surgery three years ago — scars and all — and her ongoing process of making peace with that transformation.

So here’s to Dina Boshra — the girl who once changed her accent to fit in, now singing in all her languages to stand out. And to anyone else who’s ever asked, where do I belong?

Maybe, just maybe, the answer is: you’ve always been home.