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He was born on May 19th 1985, in Cairo, Egypt. In June 1987, his parents decided to move to Canada. Sherif was very early on interested in and attracted by music. He received his first keyboard for Christmas when he was about 7 years old. As a child, he never took any proper courses, but would reproduce everything he would hear, from Walt Disney tunes to oriental/Egyptian music his parents would listen too. His real “awakening” happened shortly before Sherif turned 12; starting high school, meeting new friends, made him discover a whole new musical world. The whole Seattle scene of the early 90’s, mainly Nirvana and Kurt Cobain became his main inspiration. Soon after, he received his first guitar, for his 12th birthday. Again, without any course, the young musician taught himself a few chords, and managed to reproduce everything he could, from pop to rock. On another page, and since age 7 as well, role playing video games (Final Fantasy, Zelda, etc.) contributed to his need for imaginarion and creativity. The soundtracks to those games being amongst the first fully constructed scores in video games, it was Sherif's first contact with classical music proper, which would lead him, years later, to study classical music theory and interpretation. Around the end of 1999, he formed his first band with drummer Mike Sperlazza, and bassist Michael Carfanigni. During the next 4 years, the band, Eloes, recorded two demos, at Air MS studio in Montreal, yielding 15 of the almost 70 songs