Samia Farah Biography
this is her First record sleeve for a first album 1999.SAMIA FARH is a French Tunisian singer/ song-writer, producer and designer who grew up in France... Her Father, a slightly eccentric human being, introduced her to music, movies. art litterature and sense of humour..... .. In 1999 Samia released an album for Sony France where she sings, plays Melodica,wrote and co-composed the whole album with Giovanny Delahunda( Aka Giovanny Adrien)
She was in this time very fond of jazz and reggae she wanted to work with jazz musicians and Andre Ceccarelli , Laurent de wilde are featured on this first highly acclaimed recording that she concieved..... She also invited the UK mixer and producer Adrian Sherwood to mix a few tracks .
Samia worked with musicians from many and different backgrounds .. such as Richard Dorfmeister(Austria) "Heidi Bruhel", Adrian Sherwood(U.K.) on his album "Becoming a Cliche" with her song "J'ai Change"... ( she also designed the record sleeve for this album.) Hiroshi Yamauchi. .. Samia has also done a duet with Lee Perry(Jamaica) "yellow tongue" ..on his new album "The mighty Upsetter".(a remix by Kode 9 has also been done of this song) she wrote the song ,recorded in Paris and gave him the track to have his opinion which that end on hos Lp.. .. Brasilian sound system Moa Ambessa... She has also recorded a track for Dj center (Brooklyn U.S.)"Tout passe".with a remix by dj Wajeed...and so on.
Samia's second album "The Many Moods Of..." has just been released (2009),it features 16 new tracks ... The sleeve for the album was made with collage references to Sophie Tauber-Arp. Samia studied Digital Media and design at the London College of the Art . She now lives in London ,and is preparing an Arabic dub album produced and composed by herself and Many other things as Travel DUMB images and video editing. She is since few years now films her travels around the world and concerts as ..(The slitsUK,Lee PerryUK,Puppetshow in Viet Nam,Cambodia Orphan house,Mutabaruka)..She also records Audio Dubs in Collography, collusion of audio foetus ..for non pregnant womEn the project is at its embryonic state.
In 2021 she wrote a novel
"Bangkok a ma table" and was plagiarized by à "journalist " name Lili-âne hassan that no body really knows... Using her détective skills, it appears that the novel was written by men who went thru 15 years of Samia Farah's work...
Including putting in words her visuals, stealing some of her songs etc... Gallimard, a publishing company known for their plagiarism is staying silence for now .
Samia Farah's is writing other novels and is dedicating her time to her filming and visual art ...
A suivre
In 2023 she was invited for 2 artists residency program to work on sculptures ,one in India Madhya Pradesh and the other one in Miyagi muséum of kokeshi dolls Japan , where she created 2 kokeshis inspired by charecters of the Japanese film maker Shinoda.
She has also recorder music with 2 japanese band..
She lives between the Uk and south eastAsia.
