The Syrian civil war changed everything: Yarmouk was besieged by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Food, water and medicine became scarce, and dodging sniper fire was a daily reality. But even as a humanitarian disaster unfolded around him, Ahmad was driven by an unstoppable passion for music and a desperate desire to "make the children smile again."
So he pushed his piano into the wrecked streets of his hometown and started to play in the rubble.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/22/europe/pianist-of-yarmouk-record-deal/
