<p>Egyptian word and voice artist Dalia Younis is making history as the first veiled Muslim woman to sing Christian hymns and record inside a church.</p>
<p>Younis, born in 1986, was always passionate about music. As a child, she grew up listening to Christian hymns and fell in love with how they sound.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdalia.ihab.younis%2Fvideos%2F308245383279801%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>While she didn't study study music academically and graduated from Ain Shams' Faculty of Medicine, she learned about music online before she participated in the German University in Cairo's (GUC) music ensemble.</p>
<p>While she works as a content creator full time, music continues to be her hobby.</p>
<p>Due to the fact that she's Muslim, however, she was attacked by some people who undermined her faith.</p>
<p>"Some people think I regularly perform at The Mass, but that&rsquo;s not true. I recorded videos of me singing hymns in churches in Egypt and the United States as a form of art, not a practice of religion," she told <em>NileFM</em>.</p>
<p>"There's nothing weird about it nor does it deserve people questioning my faith," she added.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdalia.ihab.younis%2Fvideos%2F2335044366522804%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=267" width="267" height="476" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Her music style, however, doesn't solely revolve around hymns and includes classical music and lullabies.</p>
<p>"I have plenty of projects, alongside hymns and Islamic songs, and I wish people wouldn&rsquo;t put me in one box," she said.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Her classical rendition of the "Shaabi" song "Ali ya Ali" has 3.7 million views on Facebook.</p>
<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdalia.ihab.younis%2Fvideos%2F2047295651964345%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>In 2015, she began singing lullabies to put her six months old son to sleep.</p>
<p>Soon enough, she started posting her lullabies on SoundCloud, with hopes that they'll help fellow mothers.</p>
<p>She currently has more then 70 thousand SoundCloud listens.&nbsp;</p>
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