Elias Karam is a Syrian singer, composer and Oud player. Elias Karam was born in the year 1960, in the northern Syrian town of Hassakeh,Syria Elias Karam started his singing career at the age of sixteen when he sang songs for Wadih El Saffi, he also wrote his first song at that age. At the age of twenty Elias Karam was an established singer and registered at the Syrian radio. Elias Karam moved from Syria to Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and Egypt where he had many concerts.