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Soren Régis Mounir, is a Swiss-American singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

, drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

, keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

, record producer
Record producer
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 and radio commentator; also known as the artist Dorian Gray.

Early life

Soren was born in Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. His professional career began as a drummer, first with progressive rock group KGB (CH) and then more famously in his country with band Alesia (CH) as a drummer-songwriter-producer. In KGB, Soren originally supplied drums and began to write songs.

Soren Régis Mounir's song “Mon Coeur l’aime” was performed by Kathy Leander to represent Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

, in 1996, which was hosted by a-ha singer Morten Harket
Morten Harket
Morten Harket is a Norwegian musician, best known as the lead singer of the Norwegian synthpop/rock band A-ha, which released nine studio albums and topped the charts in several countries after their breakthrough hit "Take on Me" in 1985. A-ha disbanded in 2010. Harket has also released four solo...

 in Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

.

Solo career

2007: Soren decides to go solo and signs an important Publishing deal with Editors "SIDOMUSIC B. LIECHTI & Cie" for most of his songs and also signs a production deal for his solo project under the name of Dorian Gray with debut album “Hurt By The Moon”. The album is co-produced and mixed by Chief Engineer Yvan Bing (Phil Collins
Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....

) and mastered by Justin Shturtz at Sterling Sound NY.

Producer / songwriter

2002: Soren Mounir discovers Welsh singer Duffy
Duffy (singer)
Aimée Ann Duffy , known as Duffy, is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Her 2008 debut album Rockferry entered the UK Album Chart at number one. It was the best-selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008 with 1.68 million copies sold...

 on the Internet, she’s 17; together they write and produce more than 50 songs under the name of Soulego. In July 2003 they perform as a duet at the Wakestock (Wales)
Wakestock (Wales)
Wakestock is Europe's largest wakeboard music festival, combining the cultures of music and the world's fastest growing watersport in a weekend of high-octane excitement! It is held on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, in between Pwllheli and Llanbedrog....

 festival.

2003: Soren writes Star Academy
Star Academy
Star Academy is a highly successful television show format based on the Spanish format "Operación Triunfo" produced by Endemol, that has been broadcast in over 50 countries...

 4 (French “Pop Idol
Pop Idol
Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on 6 October 2001. The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-02 and a second in 2003...

”) Lucie Doni's 1st single, "Je suis mes pas", which remained at 57 on the French Top 100 for six weeks (Atoll Music/Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment
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 France).

2004: Soren collaborates with producer Carmen Rizzo
Carmen Rizzo
Carmen Rizzo is a producer and music engineer who has worked with Alanis Morissette, Oakenfold, Kate Havnevik, Huun-Huur-Tu, Temposhark, Jem, Niyaz and Esthero. In addition, he has recorded his own albums entitled The Lost Art of the Idle Moment , Ornament of an Imposter , and Looking Through...

 and Jamie Muhoberac
Jamie Muhoberac
Jamie Muhoberac is a session keyboardist with numerous credits, including The All-American Rejects, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones , Backstreet Boys, Aly & AJ, Bob Dylan, Goo Goo Dolls, Chris Cornell , My Chemical Romance, Paradise Lost, Girlfriend, Carmen Rizzo and Pet Shop Boys...

 in Los Angeles on the Invisible Sun Odyssey (I.S.O.) solo project; it’s a tribute to composer/producer Jeff Lynne from ELO. CDs and vinyl records of “I.S.O”. are released in France for the French Nightclubs.

2004 - 2005: Soren collaborates with French talented author Jerome Attal.

2006: Soren is featured on the "BRU(i)T" compilation CD (CH) - based on an idea by Antoine Bellwald (Phil Collins
Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....

) and Alban Chaperon - with an original two minutes track called "BUDDAM".

2008: Soren is the composer of the new film soundtrack “PANORAMA 08” for the "International Committee of the Red Cross" (ICRC)

Discography

  • 1993 : Time To Tell (Alesia) – LP
  • 1996 : “Mon cœur l’aime“ (Eurosong 96) – Single
  • 1997 : “So Much In Love” (Fullmoon) – Vinyl Single
  • 1998 : Changer (Soren) – Demo LP
  • 2000 : Les mots dits (Brice Parelli) – Demo LP
  • 2001 : A Piece Of Life (Reldie) – Demo LP
  • 2003 : Koto Buki (Duffy feat, Soulego) – 47 songs demo project
  • 2004 : Invisible Sun Odyssey (I.S.O.) – Single, Vinyl single
  • 2004 : “Le monde danse” (Eurosong 04) – Single
  • 2006 : Hurt By The Moon (Dorian Gray) – LP
  • 2006 : Buddam (BRUiT compilation) – LP
  • 2006 : “Back To Tears” (Fantastic Day, compilation UK) – Single
  • 2006 : “Forever More” (The Big Indie Comeback, compilation UK) – Single
  • 2006 : “Back To Tears” / “Violent Thoughts” (The Big Bang, Compilation USA) – Singles
  • 2006 : “Forever More” (Suisse Rock, Couleur 3 Swiss Radio compilation) – Single
  • 2008 : Hurt By The Moon (Dorian Gray) – International LP
  • 2008 : PANORAMA 08 (International ICRC Movie score) – Video

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