![]() What are you currently working on? Can you give us a hint? People are waiting to see and hear what’s next, and I am working more and more on my content, my new songs, and my sound, to always be active and have things to share with everyone. How has your day-to-day life changed from when you used to make covers to now, after releasing your first song?Īfter releasing my first song, I feel like I have more responsibility now, especially after receiving so much positive feedback. I want the song to be able to speak to them as it spoke to me. If the song made them feel any kind of emotion, I would be satisfied. We all have someone or something that we can’t forget, or if I can put it that way, don’t want to forget. We all have lost a loved one, a home, or a place at some point in our lives, and we all feel nostalgic. Helou performing at a gig Since ‘Keef Bensa’ is about losing someone close to you, how do you wish to make the listeners feel through this song?Įach person listening to ‘Keef Bensa’ can relate to it in different ways, since each one is going through, or has gone through something that left a mark in their lives. I love to always have a fusion in my songs and hopefully, I’ll be able to bring it out more in my upcoming tracks. It was this knowledge of both oriental and occidental music that influenced my music style, and I think it shows in my song ‘Keef Bensa’, since the music and production have a modern/occidental style, but the way I am singing has an oriental feel. I also loved listening to occidental music, and since I was 12 years old, I would sit in my room, playing songs by Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Christina Aguilera, and trying to focus on the way they sing to understand how they control their vocals, their runs, and the flexibility in the notes. This really helped in shaping my knowledge of music and made me even more interested in it, especially since my father used to always make us listen to great artists such as Melhem Barakat, Wadih El Safi, and Fairuz. ![]() My late grandfather used to play an oriental instrument called the mejwez, and my father has a beautiful voice and used to sing as his part-time job. Which Arab and international singers did you grow up listening to? Did they influence your music style at all? It was since then that I discovered my connection with music and especially with the piano. I could spend hours just sitting there, trying to figure out the tunes, humming along with the notes I would be playing. I have many childhood memories that played a huge part in my musical life, but one memory that I never forget, because I used to do it often - and still do - is that whenever I walked into a room that had a piano, I would find myself sitting on the chair and playing random notes. ![]() What is your earliest and strongest memory of music? Vogue Arabia caught up with Helou over e-mail to find out more about her musical journey, her new song, and the ambitions that keep her going. Now, the singer and songwriter has set on a path to move listeners with her first self-written track, ‘Keef Bensa’ followed by an upbeat song for summer. ![]() Think Nancy Ajram‘s ‘Albi Ya Albi’ and ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’ by James Arthur seamlessly mixed together, or Coldplay’s ‘Fix You’ with Ajram’s ‘Aam Betaala’ Feek’. Helou caught the attention of her label Vibe Music Arabia with her soulful voice and unique covers, which were mashups of international and regional tracks. Music runs in her blood, having come from a family whose members have a long history with singing and playing instruments, while some of the Arab industry’s greats shaped her early interest in the field. With her debut single ‘Keef Bensa’, and a burning passion to shake up the Arab music scene, Lebanese singer Nour Helou has joined the new crop of homegrown talent to watch out for.
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