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FAREEQ EL ATRASH is a live hip hop band from Beirut, Lebanon. The band is spearheaded by the region's finest and most lyrical emcees, Edd and Cappuchyno, along with Lebanon’s foremost beatboxer and live vocal effects man, FZ. Fareeq El Atrash has been on the local music scene since 2006 backed by multi instrumentalist Ghassan “Goo” Khayat and bass player John Imad Nasr.

Issa Ghandour’s interest in music was inspired by his father, the late Hassan Ghandour, a well-known Arabic-music composer/singer, who rubbed shoulders with Mohammad Abdulwahab and Faiza Ahmad among others. Issa undertook studies of Arabic music history and theory which led him to discover the Andalusian and classical Arabic music. He studied the violin and the oud at the National Conservatory.

Wael Kodeih was born in 1979 in Nabatieh, a small village in the south of Lebanon, to a Lebanese father and Palestinian mother. In 1982 the family fled Lebanon upon the Israeli invasion campaign known as "Peace of Galilee". The tragic war sent them to Paris where Wael lived until the age of 13. In 1992, two years after the Lebanese Civil War ended, the family moved back to Lebanon.

Tania Saleh is a Lebanese singer/songwriter who has been paving her own path in the Arabic underground musical scene since 1990. Her voice is wise and true, a soft mix between the traditional Arabic music she was raised on and the western sounds she chose to follow. She writes about the daily worries of a troubled society, of love and hate and what’s in between. Her music follows the rhythm of her daily life and mirrors her changing mood, creating a boiling pot of tunes, feelings and love for innovation.