A&R Interviews

Ellie Colton interviews KAIS a Canadian, Jordanian born singer-songwriter and producer.

About The Artist

Kais Khoury, professionally known as KAIS, is a Canadian, Jordanian born singer-songwriter and producer.

Blending a fresh fusion of Indie, Alternative, and Psychedelic Soul-infused Blues & Folk Rock, he's creatively addressed a wide array of topics. Recognizing music as a tool that could move and influence people, he first wrote about world issues like war and global warming. Today, his poetic complexities have grown to express the plain difficulties of being human. Always a lover of the metaphysical, he's woven a fine balance between natural inclinations and the demands of the social world. For the most part, he certainly is no stranger to wanderlust and has expanded the boundaries of his spiritual development with an avid affinity for traveling and open expanse sports like kitesurfing and skydiving.

Gradually having made ripples in the music industry as an independent and self-funded artist, he's performed quite a number of gigs since the early 2000s. In 2014, he took part in the Mayor of London Big Busk. That year, he put a stamp on his music career after graduating with a diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering out of Point Blank Music College. It's safe to say that he's dabbled with electronic sound design and other far-reaching aspects of the music industry, and has prolonged the rewards of that entrepreneurial musicianship with a broader vocabulary and a hands-on approach. In alliance with a full band, he continued to perform throughout Vancouver, BC, Toronto, ON and Seattle, WA in 2016 and 2017, and was set to perform at SXSW in Austin, TX in 2018. Recent achievements include an 'Honorary Mention' in the 2016 International Songwriting Competition, a Canadian 'Best Out of Province' nomination at the 13th Annual Toronto Independent Music Awards and a 'Lyrics Finalist' in the 2017 USA Songwriting Competition.

As of October 2018, having moved back to the Middle East to support his family business, KAIS inaugurated his personal state of the art Recording Studio on the island of Cyprus, which even hosts artist Rehearsal Spaces and a Music School (Website: www.hotsoapstudios.com / Instagram: @hotsoapstudios). He now helps jumpstart the music careers of other artists in the region.

Although he has retired from live performing in the last couple of years since moving back to his hometown, he gradually continues to write and record music now with greater maturity and a stronger approach, all to be released in due time. One thing seems certain for this artist... His intense passion and an insatiable thirst for self-betterment are taking things up a notch for both him and the steadfast comrades by his side.

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