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Layal Watfeh (born February 14th,1980) is a Syrian composer, musician, and voice actor. Over two decades of work, Watfeh has won numerous international awards for her voice acting and original scores for television and film. Watfeh specializes in trailer and commercial music, which typically features Arab and orchestral influences. She has worked with major companies composing commercial music, including past clients such as Olay, T.G.I. Friday’s, and Krispy Kreme. Besides recording music, she has also been a talking head on many TV networks across the Middle East, such as MBC2, MBC4, OSN, Abu Dhabi TV, DMTV. Watfeh currently lives in Dubai.

Early Life

Watfeh was born in Damascus, Syria, where she began exploring her interest in music at a young age. She officially began her career at nine years old when she was entered the music conservatoire in Damascus to learn the violin, though later that year moved to Dubai with her family. At 11, she turned her attention to the piano for two years, and by 17 Layal was recording voice-overs for TV and radio commercials. 

After working in numerous music studios in Dubai, Watfeh began composing original music. Hours of extra study and practice with the sound equipment allowed her to develop her talent as a composer.

Career

In 2002, MBC Group offered her a job as a post-production sound engineer, sound designer, and music composer. Watfeh accepted the job, and after six years of rising through the ranks, she was named the senior manager of her branch. Meanwhile, Watfeh saw increasing success in the music industry, as she sang the lead vocals on the hit single “Lemonada” in 2004. 

Despite great success at MBC, Watfeh left in 2009 to create her own studio and begin composing music. She gravitated to a variety of media, including advertisements, TV series, documentaries, short films, and feature films, and she found work across Middle East, the USA, Canada, and the UK. Watfeh’s growing success led to an invite to Berlinale 2014 in Berlin, Germany. She was one of 300 artists invited to the festival that year .

In 2016, Watfeh signed a contract with Score a Score in Los Angeles as a composer, where she has been writing scores for various American companies.

Awards

Year	Event	Nomination	Result?
2006	PromaxBDA-World	Best Sound Design	Gold
2007	PromaxBDA-Asia	Best Sound Design	Silver
2007	PromaxBDA-Arabia	Best Sound Design	Silver
2011	The New York Festivals	Best Original Music (Tears of Rain)	Bronze
2011	The New York Festivals	Best Narration (Road of Death)	Bronze
2015	US International Film & Video Festival	Best Original Music (Tide of Grief)	Silver
2016	Hollywood Music in Media Awards	Best Music in a Trailer	Winner
2017	Cairo Film Society Festival	Best First Score in Feature Film (Before the Summer Crowd)	Winner

List of TV series credit:

2012 - "04"

2013 - "Heat Wave"

2014 - "Thakira Min Waraq"

2014 - "Burkan Naem"

2014 - "Second Chance"

2015 - "Hob Walaken"

2015 - "Kaeb Alee"

2016 - "Baab Al Reeh"

2016 - "Khiyanat Watan"

2017 - "The Black Day"

2017 - "Love Without Boarders"

List of Feature Films credit:

2015 - "Nawara"

2015 - "Before the Summer Crowd"

2017 - "Photocopy"

Pages:

IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3221223/

SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/layalwatfeh

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LayalWatfehOfficial/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/layalwatfeh

Official Website - https://www.layalwatfeh.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ladyellez/

LinkedIn - https://ae.linkedin.com/in/layal-watfeh-9435aa10