Soren Mounir

Soren Mounir
Soren Mounir (Dorian Gray)
Background information
Also known as Dorian Gray
Origin Geneva, Switzerland
Genres Progressive rock, rock, pop, soul
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, Musician, producer
Instruments Vocals, drums, keyboards
Years active 1987–present
Labels MoonLand Music
Associated acts Duffy (UK), Carmen Rizzo (USA), David Hallyday (F), Lucie Bernardoni (F).
Website http://www.moonlandmusic.com/

Soren Régis Mounir (born 31 July) is a Swiss-American singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist, record producer and radio commentator; also known as the artist Dorian Gray.

Biography

Early life

Soren was born in Geneva, Switzerland. His professional career began as a drummer, first with progressive rock group KGB (CH) and then more famously in his country with band Alesia (CH) as a drummer-songwriter-producer. In KGB, Soren originally supplied drums and began to write songs.

Soren Régis Mounir's song “Mon Coeur l’aime” was performed by Kathy Leander to represent Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest,[1][2] in 1996, which was hosted by a-ha singer Morten Harket in Oslo, Norway.

Solo career

2007: Soren decides to go solo and signs an important Publishing deal with Editors "SIDOMUSIC B. LIECHTI & Cie" for most of his songs and also signs a production deal for his solo project under the name of Dorian Gray with debut album “Hurt By The Moon”.[3] The album is co-produced and mixed by Chief Engineer Yvan Bing (Phil Collins) and mastered by Justin Shturtz at Sterling Sound NY.

Producer / songwriter

2002: Soren Mounir discovers Welsh singer Duffy on the Internet,[4] she’s 17; together they write and produce more than 50 songs under the name of Soulego. In July 2003 they perform as a duet at the Wakestock (Wales) festival.

2003: Soren writes Star Academy 4 (French “Pop Idol”) Lucie Doni's 1st single, "Je suis mes pas", which remained at 57 on the French Top 100 for six weeks (Atoll Music/Sony Music Entertainment France).

2004: Soren collaborates with producer Carmen Rizzo and Jamie Muhoberac in Los Angeles on the Invisible Sun Odyssey (I.S.O.) solo project; it’s a tribute to composer/producer Jeff Lynne from ELO. CDs and vinyl records of “I.S.O”. are released in France for the French Nightclubs.

2004 - 2005: Soren collaborates with French talented author Jerome Attal.

2006: Soren is featured on the "BRU(i)T" compilation CD (CH) - based on an idea by Antoine Bellwald (Phil Collins) and Alban Chaperon - with an original two minutes track called "BUDDAM".

2007: Soren collaborates with French singer and superstar David Hallyday who officially supports the project Dorian Gray and becomes Dorian's stage drummer for a few concerts.

2008: Soren is the composer of the new film soundtrack “PANORAMA 08” [5] for the "International Committee of the Red Cross" (ICRC)

Discography

References

  1. ↑ http://www.esctoday.com/annual/songinfo.php?contest=1063&song=1
  2. ↑ http://www.esc-history.com/details.asp?key=779
  3. ↑ http://www.mbus.com/bands/genadm/Dorian.Gray.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.downtown.co.uk/article.asp?id=903943
  5. ↑ http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/f00980?opendocument
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