Nadine Altounji

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Nadine Altounji is a Montreal singer-songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, oud player, and multi-instrumentalist. Raised in Montreal in a Syrian family, she began playing piano at age five and later studied guitar and integrative music at Concordia University. Before launching her solo career in 2016, she spent years accompanying artists in Montreal. Her work brings Arabic musical language and instruments into conversation with folk, soul, pop, rock, funk, African rhythms, and musical traditions encountered through research and collaboration in Ecuador and Peru. Altounji performs on acoustic and electric oud, guitar, piano, bass, cajón, and darbouka, and writes in Arabic, French, Spanish, and English. Her songs frequently address identity, memory, freedom, justice, peace, and relationships between cultures. Research trips in South America led to collaborations with poets, dancers, and musicians and shaped the five-track EP The Stories That Tie Us to Trees, Vol. 1 in 2022 and its French companion Enracinées dans l'histoire - Vol.2 in 2023. Putumayo World Music selected No lo olviden and Dans la folie de nos temps for its programming. Zayt el oud followed in 2024, and the independent single I Wanna Be Free, featuring Assane Seck, arrived in September 2025. Altounji's current official biography documents selection for the MUZ 2025 cohort, an early 2026 residency in Gaspé with guitarist Cécile Doo-Kingué, a March 2026 Quebec tour, and additional 2026 Quebec and Nova Scotia festival dates. The City of Montreal currently presents her work as part of Outremont's July 2026 cultural program and describes it through the richness of Montreal's cultural exchange. Calgary Folk Music Festival lists her current location as Montreal, Quebec, while Folk Canada's 2025 concert coverage and MusicBrainz independently connect the same Montreal identity. These sources satisfy MusicList's current Canadian country, Quebec province, and Montreal city gates. The exact Spotify identity 6ZKDnbtj5rssQeYpt11du5 exposes nine primary album and single containers in the Canadian market from March 2021 through September 2025. Collision review ties all nine to the same official site, MusicBrainz identity, rights lines, collaborators, chronology, and multilingual catalog. Spotify labels one one-track container as an album, while Apple Music identifies Marcha de Flores as a single. MusicList therefore classifies the catalog as two EPs and seven singles. Apple Music splits the same catalog across artist identities 1554169887 and 1527181274. The MusicBrainz-linked profile is retained publicly, while the split is preserved in provenance and does not create a second MusicList artist. Representative releases include Marcha de Flores, Escarba en mi Alma, The Stories That Tie Us to Trees, Vol. 1, Enracinées dans l'histoire - Vol.2, Zayt el oud, and I Wanna Be Free. Professional inquiries route through the artist's official page without reproducing direct contact details. Spotify media is displayed live with provider attribution and a monogram fallback.