Ash was born in a musical family, starting with his father to his cousins and sisters and hopefully his little brother too, Ash started playing music at a really young age,he always loved the piano and his love for keyboards came soon after his father introduced him to Rudess' music. At the age of 12 he had all of Rudess' music and soon began listening to keyboardists like Rick wakeman and keith emerson. His love for the synth world and being influenced by such great keyboardists led him to be a good rock keyboardist at a very young age. Ash played with different bands and different styles all thru his musical career. His first band was a metallica tribute band but for a change he was playing all the guitar solos, he hooked up his roland e40 to his guitarist's distortion pedal one time when his guitarist couldnt make it to practice and he played all the solos him self and that was a begining of a new era, he then started forming bands and playing cover songs for musicians and bands that inspired him all through his teenage years e.g satriani, vai, and dream theater. His overall technique has been compared to the greatest rock keyboardists of all time e.g Jordan Rudess and keith emerson. In the begining of his twenties Ash began listening to more blues and jazz and that was a begining of another era for him, joining most of the blues bands back in his home town of cairo and was nominated more than once as one of the best keyboardists to come out of egypt. After finishing his studies in egypt he felt the need to study more aspects of music in general, and that led him into joining the Jordan Rudess conservatory and learning all the material from his favorite keyboardist, Ash is now 25 years old but his musical ability is much more advanced. Ash now lives in toronto where he does a lot of session work with different bands and musicians(kate rogers,Chris caddell and the discount orchestra,the nick lee band) as well as attending all keyboard competitions and wining most of them. Ash has been the opening act for many great and well know musicians (colin james,sheryl crow). Ash has a different feel/vibe and approach to his instrument and his music is driven by great melodies and his technical abilities allow him to create such great music.