Music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember, alongside visual arts and writing. Since childhood, I have been immersed in sounds, melodies, voices, and rhythms from different styles and cultures, moving naturally between classical music, opera, rock, blues, jazz, bossa nova, Arabic music, and more experimental forms of expression. I began learning piano at the age of six and continued extensively for more than ten years. During the 1980s and 1990s, I took courses at the National Conservatory in Horch-Tabet, Lebanon, including solfège, opera, and Western singing, and passed several national exams. Around the same period, I started singing at my school, Collège Notre-Dame de Jamhour, performing in end-of-year gatherings and concerts from the age of eight, before later co-founding the school choir, with which we performed at Christmas concerts and other school occasions. I was, in addition, part of our Saydé church choir in Bikfaya (Mount Lebanon) during my childhood and teenage years.
My relationship with music continued to grow during my university years in Lebanon. I performed with several bands and led a band called Cougars, where we played covers ranging from heavy metal and soft rock to blues, while I also sang my own songs at university and community festivals, as well as in small pubs across Beirut, Metn, and Keserwan. I also sang with the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) band in 1998-1999, formed by university professors, exploring bossa nova and jazz.
During my years with the Rotaract Club of Sahel Metn, where I became president at only eighteen, I co-composed, co-sang, and performed a song at a regional gathering in Cyprus; the song won the prize for Best Original Project.
Over the years, between Lebanon and abroad, I also contributed vocals to some albums by other artists. Although visual art took a more central place in my public practice for many years, I never stopped composing songs privately.
In April 2026, I finally released two songs in French and Lebanese: Entre Nous and Génération Ma Fi Chi, marking a return to music not as a departure from my visual work, but as another language of the same lifelong creative journey.
Dr. Pamela Chrabieh 