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From Cairo, the whole family moved to New-York, the most fascinating cosmopolitan city in the world, Mecca of music, art and fashion, a city bubbling with life and ideas. Moreover, New-York is the city of the largest musical diversity where music of all kinds converges, where artists coming from all over the world rush to accomplish their secret dream and to one day become a star.She was gifted by nature with a voice-of-a-kind, one extremely warm and full of Mediterranean character, obviously enough powerful to one day integrate and mix in total harmony different sounds, different musical languages. To gain such feature, the future artist has worked hard perfecting her singing technique in the prestigious Herbert Berghof Conservatory where she studied art & musical theater and from which she finally graduated. Yet, our future star remained authentically oriental and though couldn’t limit herself just to her exceptional voice and singing technique so she worked even harder on dancing and acting enabling her body to absorb all types of rhythms and to exhale strength and sensuality.Living in city like New York, the future star evolved and has progressively absorbed many types of music. She became familiar with styles of dozens of most talented musicians and art professors who cultured her to blend her signature sound by composing her own music and her own lyrics and also to confront crowds during number of live-concerts she performed in New-York and in many other US or western-European cities, revealing an incredible power and talent to communicate with crowds or audiences. Last but not least, our future star understood better all the different aspects of the music industry of both art-creation and production: lyrics, music, mix, arrangement, mastering, photos, clips, marketing and brand-recognition, live-concert features, choreography….In total, the future star has spent 12 years of her life in New-York and this is where she became "Janine D".
In 2003, "Janine D" decided that time has came for her to “move back to the East” and to present herself to the Arabic public as an authentic Egyptian-Lebanese artist.
“When focusing on the craft of performing and songwriting, I always wanted my voice to shine through…But to me, relevance means above all staying honest about what you are…The most important thing for me as an Artist is maintaining my authenticity”.(Janine D).With that thoughts in her mind, "Janine D" decided to carry a genuine but challenging approach for presenting her oriental music, where sensuality goes with self-confidence and professionalism and where female artists would not be anymore presented to the public through bunch of “clichés” but where they would be giving a new image, as an acceptable synthesis between the necessary requirement of a modern life and their old traditional yet authentic values.http://fi-fi.facebook.com/pages/Janine-D/52203124848
