User:Sami3issa/sandbox

Sami Issa also known in Arabic as (سامي عيسي) or in Bulgaria (Сами Иса) is a half Libyan and Bulgarian artist, born on February 27th 1996 raised in Libya, Misurata. Sami was a Graffiti artist started doing walls in the Libyan revolution in 2011, before deciding to start his rapping journey, with the idea that the walls were not enough for him to express what he and the public has to say.

He started rapping with friends in the streets of Misurata city for fun, until he decided to move to Bulgaria in 2015 in order to continue his studies, that is when he went to the Bulgarian Xfactor, the opening of Xfactor season 4 was with Sami Issa at the time, he did a one time audition rapping in 3 languages (English, Bulgarian, and Arabic) speaking about the Libyan life after the revolution, in youtube the audition is still on going (Sami Issa Xfactor), Sami didn't go further than the 3th stage in that season, for the reason that the genre he was given to don't match his music style and principles in the first place.

Career and Music:

After not releasing any music for 3 years, that is when he decided to start his music career solo, by uploading every once in a while a track to youtube.

He kept his original self and principles, never changed anything more than the style of music, from oldschool rap, to trap and afro.

He made a his first Arabic song called Lameta which means razor blade, and he reached the Arabic audeince for the first time like never before in his channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXsgV8WzeBE&ab_channel=SamiIssa

After not rapping in Arabic for a while he decided to respond to the audience that wanted him to rap in Arabic with the his best track so far called ARABIA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Er1VlRmPKA&ab_channel=SamiIssa

Sami kept producing and mixing his music between Arabic, Bulgarian, and English, He released an EP of 6 songs called Semicolon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFlzTAy-r_k&list=PLVsKO92E5qmUXa7L2dWHQ8hlR0_4QOef7&ab_channel=SamiIssa

As a solo artist he was invited to Adrenaline Et, A Libyan TV Show for Arabic artists, he did his first interview and first track to air on national television, along with Smallx and many other Arabic artists in the 3rd season of Adrenaline.

His latest track is called Algader featuring his childhood friend Islam.

Sami Issa is also in the first official Libyan Spotify Playlist that was launched in march 2022. called Sawt Libya.