Michel was born to a Palestinian family from Nazareth. At the age of nine, he began his musical education in Nazareth by learning the guitar, under the instruction of George Bawardi.
At age 17, he began his professional career with several local bands. He then went on to work with nationally acclaimed musicians.
During the years 1990-93 Michel studied for and received a diploma in electronic engineering at the Nazareth Elite College.
In 1995 Michel moved to London, England, where he studied and completed a one-year diploma at the Musicians' Institute – G.I.T.
He began a three-year degree program in music composition at The London College of Music and Media in 1996 under the instruction and assistance of Adam Gorb. On 11 June 1999 Michel won the Wilfred Joseph Prize for the academic year 1998-99.
During the years 1999-2000 Michel furthered himself with the assistance of Adam Gorb and Nigel Clark to complete his masters degree in film and TV scoring at The London College of Music and Media.
While he was in London he worked with a number of internationally acclaimed musicians including Abboud Abdel'All, Bashir Abdel'All, Ahmad Al-Mukhtar and others.
In 2000 he returned to Nazareth and established his own business Dasam Studio (Dasam is a word in Arabic for “rich food”).
In 2001 he appeared as arranger, composer and guitarist on Samir Jubran - Sou' Fahm CD. Then he started to focus on jazz through collaboration with his friends and musicians.
On 10 July 2002, Michel was awarded the Best Title in Music from the Professional Committee of Arts.
In 2004 he recorded his debut album Yathrib, which was released in January 2006 by Ozella Music. In Yathrib he fused jazz, rock, Arabic Middle Eastern with many other things. With his band, he played in different parts of the country, toured in Germany and played the Leipzig Jazz Festival (2006), played in Geneva, and the Jerusalem Festival (2007) where he met and jammed with Nigel Kennedy.
He appeared as a lead guitarist on Alex Carpani – Waterline CD (CypherArts, 2007).
He composed and worked on different film music. He recorded his second album Writings On The Wall with the piano player Franck Dhersin. He worked and toured with the accordion player Manfred Leuchter.
Michel won the A. M. Qattan Foundation’s Performing Arts Grant for the year 2007.
Michel, listening to your demo-cd a lot, love it! I'll be back in Palestine by 10th of septembre, would be great if you come over. we could work some things out, got a lot of cd's which u might want to check...
Hey Mich, just a few months and i'll return to Palestine!!! would be nice of we would do some gigs again..... i really loved playin' on new year's eve with the whole band! so F*ckin' hot man the cd you gave me is wonderfull, i did have to get used to Hear the arabic scales over this changes, but hey why not. sounds good
May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun. And find your shoulder to light on. To bring you luck, happiness and riches. Today, tomorrow and beyond. -Irish Blessing
Happy St. Patty's Day to you & your loved ones! xox Julia
Hallo Michel, thank you for the friendship! Your music is great! Please visit my HP: www. cultevents. de and sign the guestbook if you like! I wasn..t successful in booking for you until now - but I things will be better in the future! Ciao Jörg
Hi Michel! Thanks so much for the comment! I really appreciate your encouragement! And yes, I too would love to play with you one day :-) Keep up the great work!
Hi Michel It was a great pleasure to stop by your page ,I like the percussions , i'll be back again. Thanks for your request . I hope you'll listen to my new album . Have a cool week end . Hadrien
Hey Michel, sounding great man! Thanks also for your kind words. Perhaps you are interested in checking out some of the songs that will be on my new CD, which is coming out June 2nd? If so, please click here , and I hope you enjoy!
