Background
He was born in the United Arab Emirates. At the age of 9 his father took him to Egypt and produced an album for Haitham called "Markeb Waraa".
He was born in the United Arab Emirates. At the age of 9 his father took him to Egypt and produced an album for Haitham called "Markeb Waraa".
In 2001, Haitham and his family moved to the United States, where he attended high school.
As a young boy, he became proficient at a total of 13 instruments: piano, keyboards, violin, saz, bouzouki, accordion, oud, guitar, bass guitar, drums, darbuka, riq, katem and bongos. Following that, he began performing his own concerts in the Middle East. In 2005, Haitham competed and was chosen to join one of the most famous programs in the Middle East, Superstar now Arab Idol, the equivalent to, American Idol.
He then moved to Lebanon and began his successful career.
He currently resides in Amman, Jordan. In 2007, Haitham released his first single, titled "Sho Emelte Feye" (What Have You Done to Maine) which was a big hit.
The song was composed by Haitham, and the music video was directed by Waleed Naseef, director of famous veteran Middle Eastern singers. In 2008, Haitham sang on a movie soundtrack, sponsored by Pepsi, titled "Baher El Nojoom".
This included his second successful song titled, "Tlatee Mnaen" (Where Did You Come From).
In that same album, he composed veteran singer, Wael Khfoury"s song, "Shu Mbakakee" (What Made You Cry). In that same year, he began composing for other artists as well. In 2009, he composed a new song for the artist Ayman Zbeeb, called "Ma Bdaa Tooul" (She Doesn"t Want to Say) and compositions for several other artists have followed since.
In 2010, Haitham, created his third single called, "Shu Sayer" (What"s Happened).
This song was also composed by him, but arranged by artist Michael Fadel. In 2012, Haitham, released his new album, "Jowa El Alberta" (Inside the Heart).
lieutenant contained 11 songs, all of which were composed and arranged by him. Other successful songs from that album are, "Enta Habibi" (You Are My Love), "Ya Helweh" (Hey Beautiful), and "Sayer Hanoon" (You have Become Emotional).
Haitham, has been studying music since the age of 12 and completed his studies in film making.
Most recently he showed his talents through his side company, Shomali Group Productions. In February 2014, Haitham, along with four other Palestinian singers, made the news for their collaboration in the commercial and music clip for the telecommunications provider Jawwal, titled, "Kol Yom Jdeed". Following that in September 2014, Haitham and a group of veteran Palestinian artists completed a patriotic song dedicated to Gaza, Palestine, titled, "Operate Gaza", which received much acclaim from the Middle East media.
The fall of 2014, he had an American music tour singing in Indianapolis, Indiana, Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan.