Role Singer-songwriter Name Ayah Marar | Website ayahmarar.com Years active 2004–present | |
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, musician Albums The Siren Remixes, Mind Controller, The Real, The Raver, The Bass Soldiers EP Nominations World Music Award for World’s Best Live Act Similar People Calvin Harris, R3hab, Yogi, Ray Foxx, Ellie Goulding Profiles | ||
. Ayah Marar (Singer, Songwriter, Jordan) WONDERFUL
Ayah Marar (Arabic: آية مرار, born 20 September 1980) is a Jordanian singer, songwriter, performer, radio show host and label owner based full-time in the UK. She has been featured as a vocalist and/or writer on music from UK artists including Calvin Harris, DJ Fresh, Camo & Krooked, Bassline Smith, Dilemn and Jack Peñate.
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- Ayah Marar Singer Songwriter Jordan WONDERFUL
- Ayah marar the raver xilent remix
- Early life
- Musical career
- Albums
- Singles and EPs
- As featured artist
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- References
Ayah marar the raver xilent remix
Early life
Ayah was born in Amman, Jordan on 20 September 1980, to a Jordanian father and a Czech-Bulgarian mother. She spent most of her adolescence in Jordan, before emigrating to the UK at 18 years of age, where she began her musical career at Warwick University.
Musical career
She is involved in the drum and bass scene and recorded her first single, 'Dance Child', with Loxy & Ink (Signal Records). She recorded several singles in this genre, before meeting and collaborating with Calvin Harris and Toddla T in 2004. Marar and Harris shared a home for a brief period, she toured the world as part of his live show and she collaborated on his second album, performing the vocals on 3 of the tracks, as well as a guest spot on Toddla's album and a single with his previous band Small Arms Fiya.
Ayah worked at a record shop, Uptown Records, in Soho where she met and formed bonds with several radio and club personalities. In the meantime she helped to establish and run Lucky Devil Records and promoted events in and around London.
She wrote and recorded on albums by Jack Penate, Bassline Smith, Calvin Harris (forthcoming and previous LP) and DJ Fresh.
Marar receives support from Kiss FM, Ministry of Sound radio and BBC Radio 1Xtra, appearing on the latter several times for shows and PAs, and with support from the likes of MistaJam and Bailey. She has guest-hosted several radio shows. Her recent single 'Unstoppable' was Jam Hot Record of the Week.
Ayah launched her solo career and created her own independent label, "Hussle Girl", as a platform to release her own singles and forthcoming album, "The Real".
Her album The Real was released on 15 October via Hussle Girl and Transmission Recordings in the UK and Radikal Records in the US and Canada.
She held a residency as a DJ at Herbal in Shoreditch for four years and worked as a touring MC with Hospital Records and other companies. She formed a funk band, SlinkyFix, toured the UK and performed at events with Gilles Peterson and at the Jazz Café.
With the Austrian drum and bass duo, Camo & Krooked, she performed at Brixton Academy and throughout Europe. Ayah is currently touring her solo material with DJ Tenku.