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Waed bouhassoun jordi savall biography
Waed Bouhassoun
Syrian singer and oud player
Waed Bouhassoun | |
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Waed Bouhassoun playing the oud at a concert in 2010. | |
| Born | 1979 (age 45–46) |
| Nationality | Syrian |
| Occupation(s) | singer and oud player |
| Awards | Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, chevalier |
Waed Bouhassoun (Arabic: وعد بوحسون) is a Syrian singer and oud player.
She has released four solo albums of traditional Syrian music, and toured internationally since 2010. She is a founding instructor-performer for the project "Orpheus XXI – Music for life and dignity," supporting refugee musicians in Europe.
In 2018, she was made a chevalier (knight) of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[1]
Biography
Bouhassoun was born in 1979,[2] and grew up in Shaqqa,[3] a small Druze village near As-Suwayda in southern Syria.[4]: 2 She began playing the oud at age seven, taught by her father.[4]: 3 In high s