Meet Amanda Abizaid

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Amanda Abizaid. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Amanda, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?

My father taught me the term “business before pleasure”, meaning do the work and then you can reward yourself. He also told me that health is the most important thing. This has always been the order of things for me my whole life and I feel it has set me up for a successful mindset as far as knowing what my goals are and how to achieve them, what it takes to get there and working on time management. It helps me keep the balance in my life of health, work, family and friends.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

I am a Lebanese American singer songwriter. Today my music is focused on songs and stories of my life experiences sung in Arabic and English. Being a child of war in Lebanon, I am committed to healing children living in war and promoting unity through my socially conscious, singer songwriter meets global cross over music. I shine a light on my native country Lebanon by infusing my songs with mystical Eastern melodies, Arabic lyrics, and bringing together Eastern and Western music and cultural sensibilities. I am a product of East and West harmony, and that’s the spirit I seek to promote in my music. I want to bring people together. Even though I sing about serious topics sometimes, I want my music to be joyful. I just launched my new website and released my song “Hold On My Heart Bilingual Remix”. I also have a new music video out called “Dangerous and Young Arabic Remix”. I will have T shirts for merch coming this July, 2025. I’m currently working on my bilingual album for 2026 release and will be sharing unreleased tracks exclusively to fans that sign up for my website.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I started piano at 5 years old and flute when I was 10 years old. I later began playing the guitar when I was 30 to open up a new way to write my songs. This really brought some different songwriting approaches. I have been practicing Buddhism for 14 years now and that has really changed my perspective on things in my life. Having mentors along the way in the music industry like Stephen Stills has educated me on how to become serious and dedicated to my craft as a songwriter. I always consider the source when it comes to listening to someone’s advice or direction. Faith, practice and study. My advice based on experience is that it’s important to take the time to learn your craft, study and believe in what your dream is to make it a reality. Be honest with yourself and know what you are willing and not willing to do and take your life seriously in this sense, do the work and be that person. You are what you do as they say so spend your time wisely.

If you knew you only had a decade of life left, how would you spend that decade?

I would do the things I love and spend it with the people I love. I think about this already and it guides me on how I manage the balance in my life. Sometimes when you want something badly it can steer you to spend time in ways that may not serve you due to the desperation of needing something. It can distract you from the actual goal you are trying to achieve. Because of that intense desire you may act prematurely or make quick decisions without enough thought. Having faith and trusting your intuition and slowing down is the key. Knowing what the steps are in what you need to do will give you the results that make you feel good. Because I am doing this now as a practice and discipline, I am living every day like it is the last, doing the music I want to do, collaborating with the artists that resonate with me and being in a relationship with someone who supports my passions.

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All still photographs, not including the live performance shots, are by Becky Yee (New York photographer)

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