I am a singer-songwriter, a writer and a visual artist who has traveled far, expressively, emotionally, spiritually and geographically. I've drifted between Beirut, London, Lagos, Paris, LA, New York, and am now based in Montreal. My musical career started in Lebanon, when at the age of eleven, I recorded my very first original song “A toi maman” a romantic French ballad. It is still played yearly on the airwaves in Lebanon on Mother’s Day. I compose daily, by way of intuition. It is the foundation of my music. My latest musical project, "Farewell Beirut, O Scarlet Tramp" is an album that blends experimental pop, indie rock, electronic, free-form jazz, nature sounds and African and Middle-Eastern beats. John Cage once emphasized the integration of chance into music. I wish to detach myself from a propagandist notion that if one composes he necessarily wants music. Completion is not in neatly tying things up in a little packaged story, or telling “the truth”. Music is. Music is... so complex. It has little to do with recording. It’s a construction in one’s head, of all your senses at the same time and everything you’ve ever experienced, leaving one with something to explore in the moment rather than just something to listen to. Instead of merely fusing world music and western music, I wish to deconstruct the underpinnings of music. I compose my experiences, meshing all the sounds that inspire me into a unique one that brings forth the disparate soul that lies within, while elucidating the without: the mysterious source-energy that is at the core of the divinity in music. Nature plays an important part in my compositions. There is something much deeper in sounds of nature than mere frugality. I try to bring the real world into music, not have it separated, machine-made. When all these different musical elements are gathered, then there are no rules. It is one ensemble of musical sounds, in which many ideas and forms have been woven together, creating a unique yet universal, transcendental and healing musical journey. To my mind the most beautiful and powerful musical realization, is one which tone and mood equally unite the spiritual to the cerebral. One that is recognized instinctively - proof perhaps of the universality of communication through music. This connection is huge, essential, and we are all part of this immensity, yet this immensity is also internal. Music, I believe expresses this best.