A Syrian-born, Armenian-American singer-songwriter who turns displacement and memory into hushed, timeless folk.
MOODS · hushed · intimate · nomadic · folk · melancholic · understated · reflective · warm · spare · wistful
BIOGRAPHY
Bedouine is the stage name of Azniv Korkejian, a Syrian-American musician born in Aleppo in 1985 to an Armenian family. She spent her early years in Saudi Arabia, later moving to the US, where she lived in Massachusetts and Houston before studying sound design in Savannah, Georgia. She now lives in Los Angeles.
Her career began after she approached Spacebomb founder Matthew E. White at a concert in 2015 to share her demos. She released her self-titled debut album in 2017, followed by Bird Songs of a Killjoy (2019, produced by Gus Seyffert) and Waysides (2021). Her music draws on her itinerant, transnational upbringing and family history, including references to the Armenian Genocide embedded in her chosen name.
WHY THEY'RE COOL
Bedouine's music is inseparable from her biography: a childhood spent between Aleppo, Saudi Arabia, and eventually the American South and Los Angeles, filtered through an Armenian family history shaped by displacement. Her stage name itself carries that weight, evoking both Bedouin nomadism and the forced wandering of the Armenian diaspora. Her debut album folded in memories of her grandmother's home in Syria and a song written in Armenian, giving her hushed, '60s folk and '70s country-inflected songwriting a rare specificity of place and history.
GEORGE'S PLAYS
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