Bedouine

Under the name Bedouine, Azniv Korkejian has been crafting since the late 2010s a spare folk repertoire, driven by singer‑songwriter writing, understated arrangements and a composed voice. Born in Aleppo to an Armenian family, she lived in Saudi Arabia before settling in the United States, first in Massachusetts and later in Houston — a trajectory that illuminates the mobile and intimate quality of her songs. She emerged in 2017 with the album Bedouine, produced by Gus Seyffert, where she develops a restrained acoustic folk occasionally threaded with references to her memories of Syria and to the Armenian language. Bedouine continued with Bird Songs of a Killjoy in 2019, again with Gus Seyffert, and Waysides in 2021, an album assembled from older compositions reworked over time. Her stage career has seen her tour with Fleet Foxes, José González, Michael Kiwanuka and Father John Misty, and appear at festivals such as Newport Folk Festival, Pickathon and WOMAD. Between American folk, subdued pop and introspective songwriting, Bedouine fits into an unassuming classicism centered on melody, lyric and restraint.