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Holy Spirit: Silvana Back In Action Time doesn’t
stand still for Silvana Imam. It’s closing in on three years since the release of her last album, 2016’s Naturkraft, but having been featured in an exhibition (Nonsense Warrior at Scenkonstmuseet in 2017), a book (Third Culture Kids by Ra Hidaya Modig) and had a documentary made about her (Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring and Christina Tsiobanelis’ Silvana – väck mig när ni vaknat), it feels like one of Sweden’s most prominent rap artists has never been away. Now however, she’s coming back on her creative home turf, with a new album, Helig Moder, out in February. We met her to talk about it. Words: Austin Maloney Photo: Kimberly Ihre 12