Zeid Hamdan

Zeid Hamdan is a Lebanese music producer.

He was named one of 8 leading Lights in Lebanese culture by CNN.

He has worked with many leading artists including, Soap Kills, The New Government, Katibe5, Shiftz, Hiba Mansouri, Kanjha Kora, Kazamada, Maryam Saleh, Maii Waleed, Dany Baladi, Zeid and the Wings (his own project) and recently Marie Abou Khaled, Tanjaret Daghet, Muhammad Abdullah from EL MORRABA3 and Lynn Adib.

He worked on Elie Saab film directed by Mounia AKL  “The sacred source” released on Sept 10th working remotely with musicians Marc Codsi and Jeremie Reinier.

In July 2011, Hamdan was arrested, reportedly for political sedition.

He was detained over a song deemed insulting to President Michel Suleiman, a former army chief.

Slandering the president carries a maximum two-year sentence in Lebanon.

Officials reportedly took exception to the lyrics: 'General go home'.

He was released the day after, and was told to "go home".

When the 2019 financial crisis hit Lebanon, Zeid Hamdan was about to release “the Beit Project” a collaboration with Tanjaret Daghet, Muhammad Abdullah from the Band “ El Morabba3” and himself.

The project was due to be launched on 19 October, but demonstration  started on October 17 and it was the beginning of the uprising in Lebanon.

At that period Zeid Hamdan had started to collaborate with Lynn Adib.

They would meet regularly and record demos at Zeid's studio “Lebanese Underground Studio” in Geitawi, Beirut.

During this period the pandemic started worldwide and the lockdowns were an opportunity for Zeid to focus on the production work with Lynn Adib.

On April 30, 2020, they launched their first single “Taht el Ward” then a second single in June 2021 called “Ya man HAWA”.

In September 2020 Zeid met singer songwriter Jeanne Humbert and they remotely recorded a remix of “Ana Be3chak El Bahr”.

This collaboration would lead them to create a band with singer Celine Khoury called “Abaya Road”.

On 25 September he was invited by The Arab World Institute to perform in Paris to support the victims of the blast.

In October 2020 he produced a remix for Palestinian artist Bashar Murad “Maskhara” the remix was released in october 2022

https://youtu.be/09sq3kFJQeY

In December 2020 during the covid pandemic Bedouin Burger was able to tour in Switzerland.

When moving to France with his family on January 16, 2021, by coincidence he was hosted in a room just in front of a producer and  tour manager called Valentin Langlois.

Soon after they met Zeid and signed his project Bedouin Burger with his agency Helico

In March 2021, Zeid started producing the soundtrack of the documentary “Les Visages Oubliés de Palmyre”, a documentary produced for  ARTE, the documentary was released in 2022.

Lynn Adib and Zeid Hamdan named their collaboration “Bedouin Burger" and started performing charity gigs online to support victims of the pandemic.

In March 2021 Zeid signed a publishing and recording deal for Bedouin Burger with a US/UAE company called reservoir media /pop Arabia.

In May 2021, Zeid set up a music label “Beyt Music SAS “ which took its first project- curate and produce an event for the  Arab World Institute in Paris.

The event happened online on 21 June due to the ongoing covid pandemic.

In june 2021, Zeid Hamdan wrote the additional score of the movie “Costa Brava” by Mounia Akl which includes a hit track sang by Nadine Labaki called “Beirut Hobbi" which was awarded at Cinemed festival in Montpellier.

In June 2021 Zeid was invited to perform at an event called “Mix Ta Race” hosted by Jeremie Fontaine.

He met there with the musicians of the French band Arat Kilo, he was  invited later by 2 of Arat Kilo's members Fabien Girard and Samuel Hirsh to perform for a serie of shows called “Live mag”.

In June 2021 Lynn Adib and Zeid hamdan were invited to perform in Geneva with the contemporary ensemble from the “Haute ecole de musique“ and the Diwan ensemble.

The show was called “Shawati” and was produced by the company “Ensemble Vide“.

It was the second edition of the show.

A third edition was later booked at the Ella Fitzgerald stage in Summer 2022.

In november 2021 Zeid started performing with Abaya Road.

The repertoire consisted of remixes of Arabic and Turkish classics such as “Ana Be3chak El Bahr“, “Ah Ya Zein, “Saat Saat“ and “Ayrouni Bik”.

Zeid releases tracks every now and then on his SoundCloud, and performs occasionally.

In December 2021 Zeid scored the music for the movie Dirty Difficult Dangerous by Wissam Charaf, the film was released in march 2022

In December 2021 Bedouin Burger won the price of the festival Musiques d ici et d ailleur