Rasha Rizk, born in Damascus in 1976, started expressing her talents since childhood. With her family encouragement, she started her vocal education since she was nine years old with her first Professor Naim Hanna for five years. At the age of 12, she won the first prize of the Pioneers children competition for best singer in Syria . She studied for two years Economics in the university of Damascus but she was actually more interested in arts. Thus, she left the university and started studying French Literature at the Sorbonne University by correspondences via the French Cultural Center. Meanwhile, she took part in many musical activities at different bands. She then established “Horizon” band in cooperation with Ibrahim Sulaimani before launching their own band known as Itar Shameh”.

2002 she got her musical diploma from the high institute of music of Damascus where she studied with “Galina Khaldieva” and “Natalia Kiritchinka”. She also took part in many workshops with many vocalists as “Shona Winsley”, “Gloria Scalchi”, “Valery Florac, “Rateba Al Hefny”, “Mya Bselink”, “Caroline Dumas”in the Ecole Normale in Paris. and with “Meredith Monk”,and with Roman Trekel in Berlin Statsoper.

At AL Zuhra Production company, the owner of the famous TV channel”for kids Spacetoon, Rasha works since 1995 as a vocalist, and a song writer . She also took part in many musical concerts performing Oriental music, Opera, and Jazz in many Syrian cities , in Beirut, Amman, Qatar, Kuwait, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Morocco, Paris, Frankfort, Athens, …etc. And in 2002 she played the role of the first witch at Dido and Enias opera of Henry Purcell. Then played Jumana the first character in Ebn Sina opera by Michiel Borstlap in Qatar 2003. She played “Michaella” in Carmen by Georges Bizet , Damascus in 2008.

In addition, she took part in the Opening concert of Doha Jazz Festival 2004 along with the prominent Jazz vocalist “Dianah Reeves” and the famous dutch pianist “Michiel Borstlap”. In the Dubai Jazz Festival in 2007 she sang with “Kamal Masallam”'s band. In addition to many other musical activities.

2008 she recorded three tracks in ERA new album "Reborn" in Abbey Road Studios in London

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