Scenes: Meet the Roma girl band empowering women and challenging stereotypes

Pretty Loud are not your usual girl band. The all-Roma group do not sing sentimental and sappy love songs. Instead, their lyrics focus on the plight of Roma women and the dream for a better tomorrow.

The six-member group, aged in their early teens to mid-20s, were born into the Roma community that lives on the edge of Serbian society. Persecuted for centuries, Roma, are the largest ethnic minority in Eastern Europe, and have been mired in poverty and historically discriminated against in education, healthcare and employment.

“We sing about violence, love and equality. We sing and write about all the topics that we and other women encounter in life,” Pretty Loud member Živka Ferhatović told Scenes.

“The message we send is that a girl should be independent, strong, believe in herself, and have a goal and not marry early.”

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