Hanni El Khatib

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hanni El Khatib
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Jun 8, 1981(1981-06-08)
Age	43
Birthplace	San Francisco
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Gemini

Hanni El Khatib Biography

Hanni El Khatib is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on June 8, 1981 in San Francisco, California, United States. Hanni El Khatib (born June 8, 1981) is a Palestinian-Filipino American singer- songwriter and multi-instrumentalist songwriter and producer as well as visual director and co-owner of the Los Angeles-based independent record label Innovative Leisure. Black Keys producer Dan Auerbach produced his 2013 second full-length album Head In The Dirt. His album Moonlight was released Jan. 20, 2015. The Guardian described him as “former skate-punk, raised on vintage rock & R&B [who] keeps the spirit of 76 alive through his primal raunch ‘n’ roll.”

His music was featured in Suits, a USA Network series, HBO series Hung and Showtime series Californianation and United States of Tara. The CBS series Elementary and Luther, as well as the BBC series Luther. He also appeared in the feature film For A Good Time, Call . The song “Build.” Destroy. Rebuild.” In the episode “Charity Case”, of House, he was featured. He sang “Can’t win ‘Em all” for the controversial Audi advertisement broadcast during the 2013 Super Bowl. “Come Alive,” was used in Carrie, a 2013 horror film. “Family”, was used in NHL 14 as well as in the episode “Welcome back, Jim” from the series Gotham (2015).

In 2014, El Khatib spent 30 days recording his third full-length Moonlight with drummer Ron Marinelli and engineer Sonni DiPerri at Los Angeles studio The Lair. With the exception of drums, El Khatib played most of the instruments on Moonlight himself and also sampled and edited Marinelli’s drums. Moonlight also includes a field recording of a funeral procession, recorded by El Khatib during a skateboarding trip through a Mexican village. A remix of the title track featuring Wu-Tang Clan member GZA was released on Nov. 18, 2014. Moonlight was released on Innovative Leisure on Jan. 20, 2015. Clash Music described it as “a curious oddity” that “indicates that there’s far more to Hanni El Khatib than meets the eye.”

The song, Save Me, was also featured on the NBC show The Blacklist, season 2, episode 19: “Leonard Caul” on April 23, 2015.

Innovative Leisure released his debut album, Will The Guns Come Out, on September 27, 2011. The Los Angeles Times called it “a taut and muscular collection of rock’n’roll” while The Guardian described it as “if Joe Strummer returned as an angry young Filipino-Palestinian American.” A lot of the album was composed of tracks that were recorded with Bianchi.

Hanni El Khatib Net Worth

Hanni El Khatib is one of the richest Musician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hanni El Khatib 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As a hobby, he recorded himself singing while he was creative director at streetwear label HUF. Marc Bianchi, a friend and studio engineer from Her Space Holiday suggested that he record his songs using electric guitar and drums for a year. He began to circulate a CDR of his music after participating in an art show in San Francisco in 2009. One of these CDs he gave to Jamie Strong, co-founder of Innovative Leisure.

In 2010, he was signed to Innovative Leisure. His debut single, “Dead Wrong”, was released on September 21, 2010. It featured a cover of “You Rascal You”, a 1931 song that Louis Armstrong recorded. His second 7-inch vinyl single was “Build.” Destroy. On November 3, 2010, Rebuild was released b/w “Loved One”. He would then perform live and tour extensively with Nicky FlemingYaryan, his long-time friend and drummer. He quickly gained a large audience.

The album’s final track “I Got A Thing,” a cover of the 1970 Funkadelic single “I Got A Thing…” that was recorded by Josh Marcy, reached more than 2 million YouTube views in August 2011. It was licensed for a Nike advertising campaign to serve as what NPR called a “modern surf, skate and all-around shredding anthem.” In the spring of 2012, El Khatib added a keyboard/organ player to his touring band to better recreate the sound of his album. In 2012, El Khatib met Black Keys’ frontman Dan Auerbach by chance in a bar during a shared DJ set in Paris. Later that year he recorded his second album Head In The Dirt in three weeks at Auerbach’s Nashville studio Easy Eye. It was released on Innovative Leisure on April 30, 2013, and was described as “desert-burned blues rock boosted by punk, soul and hip-hop – music that has a retro heart but couldn’t have been made before 2013” by Rolling Stone. Its track “Can’t Win ‘Em All” was featured in a popular Audi commercial that ran during Super Bowl XLVII and was reported to have reached 114 million Americans.

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Facts & Trivia

Hanni Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Hanni El Khatib celebrates birthday on June 8 of every year.

Top Facts about Hanni El Khatib

1. Hanni El Khatib is a Filipino-Palestinian American singer-songwriter.
2. He was born on June 8, 1981 and co-owns the Los Angeles-based independent record label Innovative Leisure.
3. He took piano lessons as a child and learned to play the guitar between ages 11 and 12.
4. As creative director for streetwear label HUF, he recorded his own songs with electric guitar and drums.
5. His debut album Will The Guns Come Out was released in 2011.
6. In 2012, he recorded his second album Head In The Dirt in three weeks with producer Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys.
7. His third album Moonlight was released in 2015.
8. He was signed to Innovative Leisure in 2010
9. The song “I Got A Thing” from Will the Guns Come Out reached more than 2 million YouTube views in August 2011.
10. The track from his album Head in the Dirt called “Can’t Win ‘Em All” was featured in an Audi commercial in Super Bowl XLVII.
11. His song “Gonna Die Alone” was used in the first-season finale of the television series “Loudermilk”.
12. His music has been used in television commercials for Converse, Captain Morgan, Applebee’s, Sky Atlantic, Nike, Nissan, Levi’s, T-Mobile, and Apple.
13. His song “Family” was used in NHL 14 and in Gotham (2015).
14. He played himself as the DJ of Innovative Leisure Radio in Forza Horizon

2. 15. The song “Save Me” was featured on the NBC show The Blacklist.