Ashti Abdo, Kurdish singer, multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, was born in Aleppo and raised in Efrin.

Music becomes his passion, overwhelming him very early on: he spends his childhood in the hills of his village, listening to the stories and songs of the elderly, surrounded by the sounds of nature. As a child, he learned to sing lullabies to his sister and to play the typical Kurdish instrument, the tembûr (saz), with his brother.

Moving to Italy after his teens, he continues to play the tembûr as a self-taught musician, starting to perform as a solo artist. In 2012 he joins Domo Emigrantes, bringing in the band sounds and textures typical of the Middle East. The meeting with the group in turn leads him to get to know and also to make instruments and rhythms typical of Southern Italy.

Since 2014 he has been playing saz, mandolin and percussion in the ensemble Piccola Banda Rebelde canta De André. In 2015 he also collaborates with Angelo Petraglia and Francesco Forzani, creating Beja: music, story, war, a musical improvisation project based on a personal translation of the war experience.

In 2016, from the meeting with Manuel Buda on classical guitar and with Fabio Marconi on 7-string violhao de choro, an eccentric trio of stringed instruments was born (to which percussion, voices and winds such as clarinet and duduk are added if necessary), in which everyone brings the melodies they have encountered in their personal journey of life, research and experience, and which flow into a real musical journey that from Vienna reaches the Caspian Sea, between Greek dances, klezmer melodies and traditional songs Kurdish.

In 2018 he won the DoReMiFaSud award, a competition that promotes integration and dialogue between different musical cultures. On 1 January 2020 he was a guest at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo on the occasion of the New Year’s Concert, accompanied by the Teatro Massimo orchestra conducted by Omer Meir Wellber and by the choir directed by Ciro Visco.