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Dina Elwedidi is a singer, composer, and a music producer who was born and raised in Egypt. She began her artistic career with The Workshop/Alwarsha band, and moved to form her own band soon after that. In 2012 she represented Egypt in the Nile Project where she collaborated as a musician and composer on two albums, Aswan in 2013 and Jinja in 2014. She was chosen by Gilberto Gil and the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative 2013-2014, and based on this collaboration she performed with the international Brazilian musical legend in concerts around the world, in the United States, Brazil, Switzerland, England, and Egypt. She again collaborated with Gilberto Gil in 2014 on her debut album “Turning Back/Tedawar wa Tergaa” on "El Leil". In 2018 she released her second album entitled “Slumber/Manam”, a distinctive experimental project in which she utilized the sounds of trains in motion as the background for all of her songs. Throughout her career, Elwedidi has participated in artistic collaborations and innovative musical projects with prominent local and international artists, such as Kamilia Jubran, Fathy Salama, Mohamed Mounir, Hany Shenoda, Chelsea Green and DJ Totti. Dina Elwedidi was chosen by Time magazine as one of the ten Next Generation Leaders, 2019. Dina’s music is described as "a trip through history, mining Egyptian folk music and Arab poetry,” in the article entitled "How This Egyptian Artist is Drawing from History to Inspire Change for the Future.
