Faouzia was classically trained and writing her own songs by six, years before her family's move from Casablanca to a small town in Manitoba, Canada — Notre Dame de Lourdes — gave her the specific Western-meets-Arabic musical identity she's built a career on since.
She draws as much from Beyoncé and Lady Gaga as from the Middle Eastern singers she grew up listening to, a blend that shows up directly in her cinematic, multilingual songwriting.
She sang on David Guetta's 'Battle' in 2018, a moment she's called one of the proudest of her career, and 'Minefields,' her 2020 duet with John Legend, cemented her as a genuine crossover artist rather than just a rising local talent from a town of a few hundred people.