Ema Shah is Kuwaiti, born on June 7, 1981, Virgo. She is an anthropologist, a modernist, an actress, both on theatre and in cinema, a singer, musician, composer, as well as a guitar and piano player; she’s also a marionettist, a dancer, a song and theatre writer, and a theatre producer. As a singer and musician, her work is in Classic and Pop. In theatre, her themes are: musicals, absurdity, surrealism, Dadaism, symbolism, fantasy, expressionist dancing, masks, and realism. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Ema Shah. Concert. Kuwait 2013Ema is Kuwaiti, an authentic Middle Eastern, with a diverse ethnic background: Arab, Iranian, Afghan, British, and Asian. As far back as she can recall, her mother used to sing to her at her bedtime “sleep, sleep, sweet kid”, “once upon a time, there was a knight prince who met a poor girl, bought her fancy clothes, and married her. The animals in the forest were joyful, and she lived with him happily ever after in his palace. Between the age of 3 years old and 9 years old, she used to run over the tables of the big library where her father worked as a secretary. She used to skim through the books with passion, looking at their pictures, and learned to read in no time when she was 4. She often visited her disabled grandmother, and her grandfather who played number games with her.