The young legendary musician; with his voice like a nightingale and
 sensitive soul, Wasim Arslan has been through the dark side of life, he
 experienced and survived a lot during the war in Aleppo, Syria. Yet he
 kept challenging the horrifying circumstances inspired by music and
 motivated by the smiles around him. He studied management and
 worked as a sales manager for his family Textile business, and then he
 owned his own shop.
 To pursue a dream - after discovering his voice - he did a vocal course
 with the best vocalists in Aleppo - Safwan Abed - In the age of 21. Then
 With his friends in Aleppo, he formed “Sangria” a band that fuses
 flamenco and oriental music which soon had to be broken due to the
 war situation in Syria.
 Surviving the whole adventure of the sea and mountains, he reached The Netherlands safe & sound in 2015 to
 start a new life. Refusing to stay in the refugee camps during his process of Asylum doing nothing, he found a
 non-¬profit startup school DELITELABS, and got accepted to do an entrepreneurship course in. The course
 offered its students an opportunity to take a part in a competition for the best business idea, which he with a
 group of talented people won. Duncan Stutterheim, owner of Amsterdam tower and founder of ID&T, was a
 member of the jury and offered the group an office space in Amsterdam tower. That is how “Daff” came to life.
 Daff (the fusion artspace), is a project that aims to connect Syrian talents with Dutch and international ones;
 talents including music, art and food.
 Later on Wasim and five other international musicians formed “Sarsaria” a band focused on Oriental Traditional
 Dance Music and they performed on stage in several events such as; Mysteryland, ByondFestival, What Design
 Can Do? And yet a lot more to come for the limitless aspirations he has.
 After all what he went through, Wasim feels a sense of responsibility to represent his home country Syria, and to
 give his music and talent a bigger role in uniting people and building bridges at a time of war and division. He has
 been performing at several events in the Netherlands such as Mysteryland, What Design Can Do? in the
 Muziekgebouw theater and Global Goals Jam, leading up to the creation of Sarsaria Band, alongside with
 another four international talents. The band focus on oriental traditional dance music and they performed on
 stage in ByondFestival, Magneet Festival, Landjuweel and NoordPark Festival