Sama (US)

Hey there .. I’m glad you found your way here and if you have two minutes to spare here’s a little something about me:

I was born and raised in Baghdad to Kurdish parents. You might mistake me for a journalist — and you’d be right. I started my career with features on BBC News and Voice of America, and even gave a TEDx talk at Oxford once. That was cool. But you know what was really cool? DJing all-girls high school parties in Baghdad from the age of 13. That’s when, where, and how it all started — the rest is unfolding!

Fast forward to 2021, I found my way back to music and decided to go all in. I left journalism behind and started touring. Since then, I’ve played some epic venues across the US and Europe, opening for artists I always admired; Black Coffee, Solomun, and more.

My sound? It’s deeply shaped by my experiences on the dancefloor as a crowd member, my roots in the Middle East, and years of living in South Africa, Morocco, and Europe. I’m humbled (and still freaking out a little) that my music has been receiving support from Black Coffee, Keinemusik, Adriatique, Francis Mercier, CamelPhat, Bedouin, Dixon, Jimi Jules, MoBlack…even being featured by Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1…I mean, WHAT A LIFE!