Walking through Beirut with the band on a warm afternoon, it feels like everyone is staring. They met in at the nearby American University of Beirut, a leafy hillside campus tumbling down towards the glittering Mediterranean. Yet their early songs, such as Shim El Yasmine Smell the Jasmine , a tender ballad about abandoning a gay lover for a prescribed marriage, and the Balkan jazz-style hoedown of Raksit Leila , shot them to unexpected stardom. Their surprise was partly down to the fact that few independent Lebanese musicians had made it big before.
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Jack Michael Antonoff born March 31, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Antonoff is the lead singer of indie pop band Bleachers , and a guitarist and drummer in the indie rock band Fun. He was previously the lead singer of the indie rock band Steel Train. Aside from his work with Bleachers and Fun, Antonoff has worked as a songwriter and record producer with various artists, including Taylor Swift , Lorde , St. Antonoff has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won four Grammy Awards : two for his work with Fun, one for production on Taylor Swift's album , and one with St.