Yasmine Meddour

Yasmine Meddour is a Paris-based songwriter, composer, producer, and performer whose music draws deeply from her childhood split between Russia and Algeria—she moved to Paris at eight and started penning her first songs on a second-hand piano gifted by her mom, later honing her skills in singing and film scoring at the conservatory. Inspired by classical giants like Ravel and Shostakovich, film scorers such as Alexandre Desplat, and alt-rock vibes from Radiohead and Björk, she kicked off her career composing and singing for Xavier Gens' 2011 film *The Divide*, then hit big with an original Arabic song for Mounia Meddour's *Papicha* (a Cannes contender that snagged César Awards in 2020).

She's since crafted cinematic scores blending percussion, strings, synths, and her luminous voice—like co-composing for Mounia Meddour's *Houria* (2022) and *Un été à Boujad* (2022), plus the recent *Yachapa* short film soundtrack and art projects such as *Passage*—while gearing up her debut EP *LAHWA* (or *Lahwa*), an intimate nod to Kabylia memories mixing songwriting, electronics, and filmic depth.