Born in Aleppo

Aleppo

Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and the capital of Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,301,570 , expanding to over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area, it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant...

 - Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

 in 1981, Basel Rajoub started his musical career performing on trumpet before joining Aleppo's conservatory where he
studied eastern and European classical music as well as jazz. Basel's music has hints of jazz mixed with eastern rhythms in addition to piano and brass.
He recently performed with the Syrian singer Lena Chamamyan

Lena Chamamyan

Lena Chamamyan is a Syrian singer of Armenian descent. Born in Damascus, she started singing at an early age giving her first concert when she was five years old.Through her elementary and secondary education she held many school concerts...

 and they won the Radio Monte Carlo

Radio Monte Carlo

Radio Monte Carlo is the name of six radio stations owned and managed by three different entities:*RMC Info is a French-speaking station, broadcasting in France and Monaco from Paris with some contributions from Monaco. Radio Monte-Carlo was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the...

 award in September 2006.
Both artists gained a wide poularity in the Arab world especially after they performed Live in a number of cities like Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

, Amman

Amman

Amman is the capital of Jordan. It is the country's political, cultural and commercial centre and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The Greater Amman area has a population of 2,842,629 as of 2010. The population of Amman is expected to jump from 2.8 million to almost...

, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 and of course Damascus

Damascus

Damascus , commonly known in Syria as Al Sham , and as the City of Jasmine , is the capital and the second largest city of Syria after Aleppo, both are part of the country's 14 governorates. In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major...

.

Rajoub played Saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

 in the British Council sponsored tour for the album "Sprinting Gazelle" by London based Palestinian

Palestinian people

The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...

 singer
and ethnomusicologist Reem Kelani

Reem Kelani

Reem Kelani is a Palestinian musician, born in Manchester, England, and brought up in Kuwait. Initially influenced by the jazz music her father played on his record player, a family wedding Reem attended in her maternal home in Galilee in the seventies sparked her interest in Palestinian...

  along with two Syrian musicians:

Amir Qara Jouli (violin) and Simon Mreach (percussion) in addition to three of Kelani's British band:

Patrick Illingworth (drums),Oli Hayhurst (double bass) and Zoe Rahman

Zoe Rahman

Zoe Rahman is a British jazz composer and pianist.-Education:Born and raised in Chichester, United Kingdom. Rahman studied classical piano at the Royal Academy of Music, a music degree at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, and won a scholarship to study jazz performance at Berklee College of...

 (piano).
The debut represented songs from Palestine and the diaspora in a way that seemed both modern and ancient.

Discography

Basel produced two albums with the vocalist Lena Chamamyan

Lena Chamamyan

Lena Chamamyan is a Syrian singer of Armenian descent. Born in Damascus, she started singing at an early age giving her first concert when she was five years old.Through her elementary and secondary education she held many school concerts...

:

1. Hal Asmar Ellon
   Hal Asmar Ellon
   Hal Asmar Ellon is the debut album by the Syrian vocalist Lena Chamamyan and composer Basel Rajoub released in 2006.-Track listing:#Ala Mowj ElBahr#Lama Bada Yatathana#AlRouzana#Hal Asmar Ellon#Bali Ma`ak#Ala Mowj ElBahr #Ya Mayla AlGhusson...
   
    (2006).
2. Shamat
   Shamat (album)
   Shamat is the second album by the Syrian vocalist Lena Chamamyan and composer Basel Rajoub released in May 2007.-Track listing:#Yamma La La#Da`ouni Ajoud#Sahar#Ya Msafra#Sham#Haowel Ya Ghannam#Qabl ElEsha#Bali Ma`ak#Sariri Hoveen Mernim...
   
   (2007).
3. Khameer (2010).