Sobhhï
Sobhhï is a Dubai-based R&B artist. He has been ranked the number one streamed hip-hop and R&B artist in the UAE, and one of the top artists in the Middle East. Beginning his career in computational mathematics, he now creates music full-time between the US and Dubai. Once a non-performing artist, Sobhhï made his first public appearances at a series of listening parties hosted in late 2021 for his EP "PURPLE I". Sobhhï's identity is so far largely unknown, although he has revealed the name Sobhhï is his grandfather's name and is part of his own name, translating "morning" from Arabic. His musical output has been categorized variously as "music for late nights," or Nocturnal Trapsoul – "dreamy R&B, bedroom soul and hip-hop". Personal life Sobhhï was born in the US and lived in multiple locations growing up, including Dubai, California, Chicago, and Louisiana. Taking night classes as a teen, he graduated high school early and went on to attend college at 16. Beginning by studying economics and statistics at UC Berkeley, he obtained a master's degree from the University of Chicago by the age of 21. He then returned to UC Berkeley, where he researched machine learning and artificial