An impressive rise for the multicultural artist - born in Jerusalem to a French-Algerian mother and a Serbian-Palestinian father - who grew up between Amman and Gaza and is now based in California. He will be taking to the stage at the not-to-be-missed American festival Coachella on 13 and 20 April, and fans can expect to see him perform his hits 'Maghreb', 'Very Few Friends' and 'Nails'.
As a musician, Saint Levant said he wanted to follow in the footsteps of the Palestinian-born American intellectual Edward Said to "dismantle the Orientalist fantasies that have dictated the geopolitics of our region over the last three centuries".