as1one reimagine new single 'Stranger' for 2025
Today, as1one – the first Israeli-Palestinian pop group – release ‘Stranger 2025 Version’ via AWAL on all digital and streaming platforms, HERE. Produced by Jason Evigan (Benson Boone, Justin Beiber, Maroon 5), the track is a reimagined version of the group’s second single.
“‘Stranger’ is a song that means so much to us,” said as1one. “We have experienced so much since writing and recording the track, so to revisit it and infuse it with some of our personal growth is really special. We hope audiences enjoy ‘Stranger 2025 Version’ and continue to resonate with the hope and yearning it expresses.”
This release follows what was an exceptional debut year for the group. They burst onto the scene in September 2024 with their first single, ‘All Eyes on Us’, which featured the legendary Nile Rodgers and was recorded at the historic Abbey Road Studios in London.
Their second single, ‘Stranger’ followed in November, and quickly thereafter Paramount+ released the four-part documentary series AS1ONE: THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN POP MUSIC JOURNEY. The series, now streaming, chronicles the group’s formation, creative process, and brotherhood over a five-year period of becoming as1one, the next global pop group.
Formed in the summer of 2022, as1one - Aseel Farah, Nadav Philips, Neta Rozenblat, Niv Lin, Ohad Attia, and Sadik Abu Dogosh - was conceived following an extensive nationwide effort led by veteran industry hitmakers and music entrepreneurs James Diener and Ken Levitan, who respectively signed and developed Maroon 5 and Kings Of Leon.
After a rigorous training process, the sextet relocated to Los Angeles where they began writing and recording with some of the industry’s elite, including producer heavyweights Nile Rodgers (David Bowie, Madonna, Daft Punk, Beyonce), Jenna Andrews and Stephen Kirk (BTS’ ‘Butter’ and ‘Permission To Dance’), Oak Felder (Demi Lovato, John Legend), Justin Tranter (a go-to co-writer for Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Imagine Dragons and Chappell Roan), and Tommy Brown (Ariana Grande, The Weeknd).
As reported in the group’s Billboard Digital cover feature last year, as1one arrived in Los Angeles on October 6th, 2023, one day before the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Despite being deeply affected by the news and ongoing conflict, the group, composed of Israeli-Jewish & Palestinian-Arab members, haven’t let anything obstruct the brotherhood they have built over the course of their time together. Through the collective power of music, the group are overcoming barriers, and hope to inspire new generations to do the same, a sentiment more important now than ever before.
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