Youmna Saba

Youmna Saba is a Lebanese singer-songwriter who started her musical career in 2006 and has released four albums to this day. Her recent work focuses on the relation between songwriting and storytelling, rendered in vocals, oud and guitar, and is being presented as a solo live performance, Arb’een (40), released on disc in 2017. Youmna has collaborated with many musicians of different musical backgrounds: British songwriter Mike Cooper, and Korean gayageum player Kyungso Park among others. She has taken part in international programs and residencies such as Hwaeom Spiritual Music residency (South Korea, 2017), Sound Development City (Spain, Morocco, 2016), Gyeonggi Creation Center (South Korea, 2013). She is currently working on a new solo project and is an active member of projects such as Sodassi, a collaboration initiated by Kamilya Jubran, that brings together 6 musicians from the Arab World, as well as Menura, a collaboration between Lebanese and Swiss musicians. Youmna holds a master’s degree in Musicology, focusing mainly on the parallels between classical Arabic music and Arabic visual art.