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Saint Levant: The Multilingual Hitmaker and His ‘New Wave’ of Arabic Music


Saint Levant: The hitmaker talks about his "new wave Arab" music in the Billboard Arabia cover story.

One moment, you hear Marwan Abdelhamid (his real name), his intimate voice carrying the warmth of distant days spent with his father in Gaza. As Billboard Arabia ’s February cover star, Saint Levant’s artistic journey has taken him from Jerusalem and the alleys of Gaza to global stages from The Olympia in Paris and Coachella and Lollapalooza. He reminisces about road trips with his father, who played music in the car, filling the air with the voices of global stars like Lenny Kravitz and Michael Jackson.

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