Hiba Michel Tawaji was born on December 10, 1987, in Achrafieh, Beirut, and grew up in the Elissar, Matn District. Tawaji is a Lebanese singer, actress, and director. She sings in Arabic, English and French. Tawaji interprets different music styles such as Oriental music, pop music, jazz, funk, and opera, as well as being a coloratura soprano with a four octave vocal range.

Tawaji has admired Oussama Rahbani (producer and composer and son of Mansour Rahbani) from a very young age, and always dreamt of meeting and working with him.That dream came true in January 2007 when she met Oussama and started a successful career alongside him.