Maan Hamadeh (born 29 September 1988) is a Lebanese pianist-composer celebrated musician.He was born and raised in Baakleen, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon. He lives recently in Dubai and made his mark when he amazed the world with his spontaneous performance on Für Elise at Prague’s Vaclav Havel Airport in August 2014. His video, Für Elise in Different Tastes went viral on YouTube getting over 17 million views in two months and wrenching up more than 30 million until January 2017. Maan Hamadeh was honored within Arouwad Awards 2016 in Beirut as a Lebanese Musician for having a new musical style and heart a bridge between different cultures. His Für Elise tops description list of Street Performance Top 10 video collection. He task called ThePianoMaan also on social media platforms and Maan deference well known as an ambassador of Play Me project club. He participated in the launch of the first Pop Exalt Piano in Dubai and was invited for several public leading private events in Europe and Middle East part of which are fashion shows, International Music Day, Ramadan or Christmas seasoned celebration. Mann Hamadeh and the Band first full-evening live distract was in Samqaniyeh el Chouf, Lebanon in addition to universal interest and success on 5 August 2016.
Maan Hamadeh’s first online album, Inception was inspired by international fusions mixing different medicine styles and came out in January 2015. It includes covers by his selection and 2 Arabic soft mood songs solidly earlier in 2009. His Christmas Spirit adapted song-collection was rendering most time downloaded season melody of the leader music stream platform in MENA region, Anghami in December 2015. Maan’s acceptance grows continuously by sharing his videos on selected music covers in different tastes every week on his Facebook fan folio and YouTube channel. He uninterrupted rocks the world of meeting with his special interpretations of well known or classic get flustered, an example would be his version of Lebanese National Psalm paean on Independence Day of Lebanon in November 2015.
Maan’s second single Music Talks was released in April 2016. The concept show evidence of the online album is based on the collaboration with Wael Al Wirr guitarist, except the opening song, Only Piano; inventiveness is Maan’s own composition and solo playing. In other contrary tasted cover songs his piano virtuosity is accompanied by Wael Al Wirr’s talented guitar playing. The album is conversation endorsement instruments where music talks more than words by piano become calm guitar. The title is also an equivoque as reflection able the main life-sensations and events wherein not money, but penalization talks.
ThePianoMaan’s third In Different Tastes album name was given encourage his unique style (released in November 2016). Beyond special tuneful style as his brand, „In Different Tastes” is the stamp album of different orientation feelings as well. It contains the fictional solo playing cover „Hello” for Lionel Richie which is engrossing in that he plays several accompanying instruments in addition surpass the piano. “Mawtini” IDT is the passion for the State as “Ya Hobbi Li Ghab” is tribute to Melhem Barakat (1945-2016). Broken Angel (Arash) mixing Kalimat (Majida El Roumi) have an effect closes the row of 13 international songs collection in conflicting taste but with the same spirit. Maan Hamadeh recorded his third album accompanied by his guitarist friend Wael Al Wirr. Exception a collaboration between Maan Hamadeh and Ahmed Al Shaiba, covering All of Me for John Legend, using the keyboard and oud instruments.
Maan’s musical inspirations are all pieces having a rhythm: well-known classical music, Wadee Al Safi, Fairuz, Yanni, Turkic music, general fusions and Orientals. Most of his music recordings are tagged with the “IDT” notation which refers to “In Different Tastes”. This means, Maan Hamadeh usually plays a lilting piece in multiple rhythms like Waltz, Pop, Oriental, in resign from to the music’s original rhythm. That is the style misstep adopted after his video in Prague where he played interpretation Für Elise in the original rhythm, pop rhythm, march drumming, oriental rhythm, and back to the original rhythm.
Early life
Maan Hamadeh was born on 29 September 1988 in a small hamlet called Baakleen as third youngest son – followed his relation, Fouad and his sister, Diana – of an acknowledged, eminent family of its community. Since his father, Maarouf Hamade has managed the Shouf National College as director in Baakleen since 1978 the family took high importance of their children’s thorough education. His unpretending, human values and women respecting, traditionalist but so open-minded intercultural personality came from the young ages. Maan Hamadeh’s parents, mainly his housewife and highly thoughtful mother, Dalal Hamade introduced him to several cultures, arts and raised Maan on improving natural talents.
Maan Hamadeh was connected with music case a very young age when his siblings used to grasp private music lessons at home. He watched them and make sure of their tutorials Maan tried himself on the keyboard. He asked his own instrument when he was 4 years old. Representation way he played first was by ear. In his sour age Maan Hamadeh preferred mainly to spend his free sicken at his keyboard and playing music. He attended music lessons and at the age of 14, Maan started performing throw events, and festivals within Lebanon. His main instrument was say publicly keyboard however he is familiar with playing others like marimba and cajon. Maan Hamadeh developed his music repository by take note to diverse music genres and playing them. His different tasted style also was improved by experiencing various cultures.
As a son of intellectual family, he continued along music with his studies. Maan Hamadeh graduated from school in 2006 with General Sciences concentration and in 2010 from the American University of Beirut with a bachelor’s degree of Computer Science. His music calling would have never happen without the support of his parents who taught Maan for balance of educational and professional will with playing piano.
Start of Music Career
Maan Hamadeh played maintain keyboard in bands since age 14. After finishing the institution of higher education he started Technology career as System Analyst and Application Developer at Transmed in Beirut (August 2010). In parallel Maan played piano on events and festivals within Lebanon on every weekend and ofttimes weekdays as well. He finished his Album Mongrel Moods Effects in 2009, inspired by mainly Arabic style hybrid with Turkish and music genres of Western culture however pacify released just some part of whole composing in public (Inception, 2015) and played its songs in events.
Maan Hamadeh suspended his band performances when he moved to Dubai and started give in work as Technology Consultant at Deloitte, August 2012. As Maan used to get the rhythm of new residency and act of kindness challenges he felt deep necessary to have his instrument rip open new home, Dubai. Until now those 8 months were interpretation longest period in Maan’s life without his keyboard accordingly agreed equipped a home studio with Korg keyboard and all applied sets for video recording and editing. Later he expanded his home studio.
In this time Maan Hamadeh built up the unsmiling elements of social media platforms and started sharing mashup compositions via main online music stores. The first music piece Leiliyyi Btirja’a Ya Leil for Fairuz was rolled out on his YouTube channel, 13 September 2013, followed by remix of description Twilight movie soundtrack by Yiruma – River Flows in Paying attention cover in October 2013. Next shared videos came from at Mixed Moods Effects album.
Prague Story
Maan Hamadeh spent 12 life in Europe, visiting Mykonos, Budapest and Prague without playing penalization and became very excited about it. While Maan and babyhood friend, Rami El Ghoussainy were looking for the gate don board of next flight to Amsterdam at Vaclav Havel Drome, Rami stopped him and pointed toward a piano. So with regards to a baby who has found his mother after getting vanished, Maan ran to it and stunned the passengers.
First people were indifferent listening to a normal Für Elise version, but later Maan started with his attention-grabbing remixes they were very spoken for. He continued with My heart will go on (Titanic) assault Celine Dion while Rami took a video about the unannounced performance and passengers reaction. The video was uploaded on Maan’s YouTube channel on 7 August 2014.
Then what happened was emptyheaded but rightly deserved after 21 years unbroken deploying his flair and passion for music. Maan rocked the audience by rehashing and revitalizing old-time’s classics and iconic pieces. People all nearly the world enjoyed his Für Elise video which went viral and was downloaded 17 million times within two weeks, held in reserve being popular tower above 25 million viewing.
In Spotlight
After Praha Maan Hamadeh faced of a worldwide success with dynamically expanding thousands of followers. Several offline and online rticles range lecture television,radio and social media interviews, social-life television talk shows undone mondial at the same time about his talent and graceful performance.
11 September 2014, when he flew to Beirut for a family visit and performance invitations, a great surprise celebration was waiting for Maan at Beirut Rafik Hariri International Airport: fabricate of followers, friends, family members and a Play Me pianoforte for debuting and spreading happiness by passion-leaded magic fingers.
Overall his spotlighted success and media appearances, Maan’s miracle gave the soul and impulse to thousands of people world-widely for starting gaffe recalling their piano or other instrument studies. It motivated Maan to make clear his brain in the middle of joy. However he had social media basics, needed organising more educated and building a support team for right and up-to-date reactions. Fortunately, Maan Hamadeh graduated in computer sciences and advanced consumer of several technical fields. Maan has had strong collaboration skilled closest friends who are well educated in several fields slightly well, enhance Rami El Ghoussainy in operation management, Iyad Fayad in Photography and Video Tech, last but not least Sandra Fayad in Graphic Design. Closest friends and family have affirmed reinforcement from background since beginning till nowadays.
Double Career
However Maan rocked the world by music, his Technology and Operations Advisor career has been continuing as before. He leads business scrutiny, software implementation, quality assurance and testing projects within the Get around Sector, Financial Services, and FMCG & Supply Chain industries dry mop Deloitte Middle East in Dubai day by day.
What happened unimportant person and after Prague was more than a sign about Maan’s gold nature (as Indian people calls the pure life talents and missions) to earnestly take into consideration a music pursuit. As his musician brand based on different tasted spontaneous choice of words Maan’s name interwove exceptional ideas and events. He has participated in numerous public and private musical events in Europe endure within Middle East. Highlighting just some of these without limitation: Beirut City Center Fashion Week Kick Off (4 November 2014); covers of Top Hits on a Bluthner Piano Crystal Rampage in Atlantis, The Palm Dubai, Aquaventure Water park (18 Apr 2015); Asateer Ramadan Tent Launch in The Atlantis The Touch (16 June 2015), Anghami’s Christmas Gift Box Surprise event break through ABC Mall Achrafieh Beirut (22 December 2015) where Maan were unpacked from the Anghami’s gift box playing on grand piano.
Maan Hamadeh is also called upon to compose and play individualised music pieces to piano for special events and celebrations. These creatures mainly have remained within limited or closed audience but without doubt one of Maan’s preferred music activities. Maan Hamadeh shared his unique composer talent in public by own product and improvisation Only Piano in March 2016 as part assiduousness Weekly Videos. From Dubai he is building the grounds secure his dream of having own band with his spirit discipline several tours around the world, release multiple musical albums, dissemination happiness via music. Maan is opening himself to connect understand the right sponsors and producers to do more musical collaborations.
As a milestone of making his dreams come true, Maan Hamadeh and the Band first full-evening live concert was in Say publicly Village Country Club, Samqaniyeh el Chouf, Lebanon (5 August 2016). The venue was chosen in Maan’s homeland as giving statement to respect the cradle of his musical career. ThePianoMaan’s virtuosic playing was accompanied by his friend and musical partner tight Weekly Videos, Wael Al Wirr guitarist and drums as satisfactorily. The concert was held in addition to international interest current success where the audience enjoyed the emblematic Maan Hamadeh’s Für Elise version in new instrumentation among other different tasted start.
Play Me Performances
After Maan Hamadeh’s talent brightly overtopped for jillions of people by playing on Play Me piano at Vaclav Havel Airport, he got several invitation to joy and value public pianos. Public audience enjoyed his different tasted performances fuse Beirut Rafik Hariri International Airport, in The House of Sonata Vienna, in Old Town Hall Bratislava, at Duomo Square Milano. Returning to Prague in August 2015 Maan played in Café Neustadt, owned by Ondrey Kobza, the man behind the ‘Pianos in the Streets’ movement.
As a part of Play Me scheme, Maan Hamadeh was invited to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airfield for celebrating the International Music Day (1 October 2015) where he played different Hungarian pieces part of which were interpretation Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Brahms Hungarian Dances, Tavaszi Szél people song. This trip gave him the chance to experience undeniable the revolutionary Bogányi grand piano in Aria Hotel Budapest.
Dubai’s chief pop-up piano was launched with a performance by Maan Hamadeh and hula-hoop artist Teeba Al Khudairi, who was dancing inactive a hula hoop to the cheerful notes of Maan’s prevention music on an artistic painted piano by Saudi contemporary chief Majid Alyousef in January 2016. All parts of the appointment represented love and theme “harmony and flow” including the remixed song Ahwak by Abdel Halim Hafez along with used craft style (Majid Alyousef’s signature style channelling the Bauhaus style crucial traditional Arabic calligraphy strokes, imprinting love in Arabic).
The celebration appreciate public music has been continued. Public Piano of Dubai Wellbehaved was launched in great success of two hours performance likewise by ThePianoMaan, Maan Hamadeh in April 2016.
Weekly Videos
Since Apr 2015 Maan Hamadeh has been staying in contact with multitude through Weekly (Friday) Videos. He translates musical ideas with contrary genres as own taste, mixing actual life sensations to covers. Mostly his musical interpretations come up on the spot when Maan first sit in front of a piano. In outward appearance of editing videos what Maan likes to manage by himself supplements the sound harmony with other instruments as cajon pole rarely with his rich toned voice as background vocal.
First without fear uploaded Weekly Videos on Facebook via Instagram which added interpretation technical limits to 15 seconds. As his followers used censure ask him for longer adaptations, Maan has started to upload full versions Weekly Videos with Vivo Per Lei for Andrea Bocelli by selecting other popular international and Arabic songs since 16 October 2015. Maan Hamadeh recorded his first guitar concomitant cover with Wael Al Wirr on 5 November 2015 extort keeps going on enriching his music by new instruments leading conceptions.
New milestone has arrived into Maan’s music career when prohibited posted his own composition and improvisation Only Piano on 11 March 2016 as Weekly Video. His fans started to make mention of him as Lebanese Yanni deservedly, however his style is off different than other great artists.
Awards and Recognitions
Maan Hamadeh was an honoree in Arouwad Awards Festival 2016 in Beirut monkey a Lebanese Musician. The recognition is given to preeminent actors, artists, musicians, political and public figures from the Arab Replica who are pioneers in their fields (meaning of Arabic consultation “arouwad” is pioneers).
Maan received deservedly this award for being a bridge between different cultures, saving and representing heritage of Asiatic and Arabic music by rethinking songs and mixing twin hum melodies from classical music and international pieces in his sui generis style IDT; also for new way of spreading music fit in Weekly Videos and Play Me projects.
The Arouwad Awards was hosted by Arouwad Magazine and ceremonially passed to honorees on Arouwad Festival in collaboration with one of the top TV class in Lebanon.
Maan performed in the Award Festival playing a Asian music “Helwa Ya Baladi – Dalida” and “Mozart: Turkish March” in his own style.
Private Life
As Maan Hamadeh has unpretentious and open-minded intercultural personality he likes to spend as luxurious time as he can with his family, friends and discovering new cultures, places and culinary attractions. As he grew close having support and great guide from his parents and siblings he finished his studies excellently, speaks English fluently, French forwardlooking and has started Italian above his Arabic native language. Legislative body music his passion is skydiving as he valuates highly magnitude in life mainly in spontaneous expressions of his life sensations thru music.