Biography
Named after a musical instrument, Palestinian native Nai Barghouti, now an expat in the Netherlands, was destined to succeed in music. Born in raised in Ramallah in the West Bank to a musical family, Barhouti soon grew fond of both Arabic and Western music, and, after graduation from the Edward Said Conservatory in Jersualem, she then moved to the U.S. to attend Indiana University Bloomington, but later transferred to Conservatory of Amsterdam to study jazz. Around this time, she began releasing music of her own, incorporating both Western classical and Arabic influences. One of her most famous songs, "Li Fairuz", a cover of Lebanon's Fairuz' "Li Beirut", topped the Official Lebanese Top 20 (Lebanon's equivalent to the Billboard Hot 100).
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