Yasmine Hamdan: Lebanese Singer and Songwriter

Yasmine Hani Hamdan is a Lebanese singer and songwriter who was born in 1976 and is now based in Paris. She first became known with Soapkills, the duo she founded with Zeid Hamdan while she was still living in Beirut, Lebanon. Soapkills released its first album, Bater, in 1999, and was one of the first independent electronic bands in the Middle East.

After moving to Paris, Hamdan collaborated with CocoRosie. She then teamed up with Mirwais Ahmadzaï, with whom she recorded the 2008 album Arabology under the Y.A.S. moniker.

She later joined forces with Marc Collin of Nouvelle Vague to write and produce her first, self-titled solo album, released in France and Lebanon in 2012 on Kwaidan Records and issued internationally in 2013 by Crammed Discs as Ya Nass. Her second solo album, Al Jamilat ('The Beautiful Ones'), came out in 2017; it was recorded in Beirut, Paris and London, produced by herself and co-produced by Leo Abrahams and Luke Smith. Jamilat Reprise, an album of reworks, came out in 2018, and she released her fourth album in 2025, entitled I remember I forget.

Hamdan had a cameo in Jim Jarmusch's film Only Lovers Left Alive, and she wrote an original soundtrack for the theatre play Rituel pour une métamorphose by Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous for a production at Comédie-Française. She is married to the Palestinian film director and actor Elia Suleiman and lives in Paris.