I first discovered Abeer Nehme through her music nearly 20 years ago. I met her in person only 24 hours before our Billboard Arabia cover interview, and it didn’t take long to realize the artist and the person were inseparable, that I was sitting across from someone who had made music not just her profession, but her identity and entire way of life.
I had been anticipating this interview for more than a year, replaying countless conversations in my head: all the things I hoped to ask an artist like her. For months, I drove around listening almost obsessively to the live album from her Cairo Opera House concert, a…
