Ash (EG)

Musician/producer with over 500 million streams of his own compositions; the ability to play piano, guitar, sax, drums/pads, electronic keyboards/wind instrument; a life shared between Egypt and French Canada. The Cairo-born, Montreal-based producer plays his own work live. But it’s the streaming platforms which have enabled him to reach so many millions. Ash’s big break after an encouraging response to ‘Lost’ (2012) came with the monster hit ‘Mosaique’, at first an under the radar experiment with a middle eastern vibe, suddenly on 500k streams a day, 3 months later 40 million, and to date, 100 million, in the top 50 in many countries. Not only a grower, but a stayer – first released in 2016, the streams have been a torrent, boosted by ‘that’ 2019 pyramids video which has almost