Saint Levant
سان ليفانت
Musician
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Palestine
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Los Angeles,
United States
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Palestinian rapper and singer whose multilingual sound turned displacement into a global anthem for a generation of third culture Arabs.
Born Marwan Abdelhamid in Jerusalem and raised between Gaza, Jeddah, and Amman, Saint Levant writes songs that move as restlessly as his own upbringing. His verses slide between Arabic, English, French, and Spanish within a single bar, mapping a childhood spent packing and unpacking across borders that were never entirely his to cross freely.
He broke through in 2022 with “Very Few Friends,” a breezy, homesick single that turned a private feeling shared by millions of displaced Arabs into a festival singalong. His debut album “Deira,” named after his grandmother’s childhood neighborhood in Gaza City, folded field recordings, dabke rhythms, and trap production into a record that felt less like a genre exercise than a family scrapbook.
On stage and off, he has used his growing platform to keep attention on Gaza, treating performance as an extension of testimony rather than a separate act from it. For a diaspora used to explaining itself in fragments, his music offered something rarer: a whole sentence.
Languages
Arabic, English, French, Spanish
Representation
Represented