Isam Elias is a Palestinian pianist, composer, vocalist and a songwriter. Born in 1991 in Nazareth, he was very early affected by traditional Arabic music and started playing piano at 6.
He co-founded the Ghazall Band, as a piano and keyboard player, a vocalist, and a songwriter. Their first album A Tareeq, was released in 2017.
The same year, Isam Elias graduated from the Rimon School of Jazz & Contemporary Music, majoring in piano performance and music production.
He also co-founded Zenobia, an electric duo combining Arabic pop melodies, Palestinian/Syrian dabkeh rhythms, synths, and powerful beats with occasional dub hints. They released their first album Halak Halak in 2019 under Crammed Discs Records.