Life Style: Singer Nadine Khouri on her ‘haunted’ new album, ‘Another Life’

BEIRUT: The stage can be a liberating place. Some musicians slip into a completely different persona when performing. For others, the microphone serves to amplify their voices, bestowing them with clarity and strength in a merciless industry that often offers diminishing returns in exchange for genuine creativity and artistic courage.  

Nadine Khouri, the enigmatic, Lebanon-born singer-songwriter whose spellbinding, penumbral vocal delivery has adorned a collection of captivating releases over almost two decades, certainly belongs to the latter variety.