Growing up with musician parents, he started playing the piano at the age of five. He studied and graduated in classical piano at the conservatory of Strasbourg (France) with the french pianist Francis Phanh-Thanh. In parallel he began his medical studies in the University of Strasbourg. After classical music, he continued to learn piano jazz with the pianist Benjamin Moussay and the American jazz pianist Eric Watson. During his musical career, he met a lot of different and interesting musicians: Franck Avitabile, Stephan Oliva, Bojan Zulfikarpasic, Bernard Struber, Latif Chaarani, Jean-Marc Foltz, Landry Biaba, Thomas Bloch, Christine Ott and Rana Farhan. Pianist in the band of the Cameroonian singer Landry Biaba, he plays Jazz and World Music in France and in Germany. Between his position as a medical doctor in the University Hospital of Tübingen and his rich musical life, he plays also as a leader in a jazz quartet called "Sahbai Samtett" with Ahmed Ajabi on saxophon and musicians from Stuttgart.
Links:
www.landrybiaba.com
www.benjaminmoussay.net
www.ranafarhan.com
www.christineott.fr
© 2016 Sam Sahbai