About Adam

I was born in Penang, an island off the northwest coast of Malaysia, known for its melting-pot culture and incredible street cuisine. My childhood was spent mostly in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s cultural capital, but was punctuated by travel to various destinations about South East Asia, Europe, and even the far-flung United States, to visit members of a family, who though close in ties, had a collective address that was decidedly global. I credit the exposure from a young age to so many different cultures as instrumental in creating the integrative style that would eventually come to define my creative work.

I discovered a deep-seated, visceral interest in music at a young age, much in part through a love of TV theme songs, which as many will remember became something of an art form during the nineteen eighties – to wit, “here we are, face to face, a couple of silver spoons…” – which I would spend hours trying to pick out on the old family Yamaha organ – you remember, the one that only ever came in brown. This combined with exposure to the movie musicals of the nineteen sixties also sparked in me an interest in the art of integrating music and story that has continued to this day.

My formative years saw me moving incrementally westwards, attending secondary school at Harrow School, in Greater London, and college at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, where I studied music – after a brief period spent thinking that I had any acumen whatsoever in the field of economics. It was in college that I really began to delve into the craft of music, studying styles and vernaculars that would remain strong influences through to where I am today: vocal music in its many forms; music theater and cabaret; folk, jazz, and rock; and of course, TV theme songs, which sadly by then were already a dying breed.

Post-college I traveled extensively, honing, practicing, writing songs and picking up stories in places as distant and exotic – at least to me – as Beijing and San Francisco, until finding myself back where I had started, in Kuala Lumpur. There, I assumed the guise of musical jack-of-all-trades, and spent two years working on a variety of projects with some truly excellent musicians, in whose debt I remain to this day for the artistic education they provided me with.

In 2004, spurred on in part by the rapid changes occurring within the music and entertainment industries, I founded BlueDorian ®, an independent production company, publisher, and record label, in order to facilitate the creation of new music and art while retaining creative independence by working outside of, though sometimes in collaboration with, more traditional production and distribution structures. In both 2005 and 2006 the BlueDorian-produced concert tours featuring The Breakers Vocal Band were met with great acclaim from audiences and critics alike.

Adam Farouk now resides just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife Elizabeth, far too many Apple computers, and two very eccentric Australian Shepherds.