REMAL FELISTINI

Remal Felistini is an emerging Australian composer, singer and song writer. His evocative powerful, expressive and deeply heart-felt musical language is influenced by his sufferings from long years of displacement as an ex Palestinian refugee. His sincere musical style blends together the Arabic and Western musical worlds. His unique moving orchestral style may include his Arabic emotive vocal, electronics, and western harmonies making his musical style highly distinctive in the world. Born a stateless Palestinian refugee outside his homeland Palestine in Southern Lebanon, Remal lived 27 years of his life with no civil rights and was exposed to war, racism, hatred and poverty. His tragic refugee status prevented him from having an access to a piano. He then used his only instrument he could access at that time which was his Arabic voice as an authentic expression of his deep pain and sufferings.