Rania Khoury is a Dallas-based alt-pop musician who has been creating music for over 20 years. She has been an active musician in the area for just as long and is making her return after an almost 6 year hiatus. Outside of music, she has done acting in a short film and done voice over work for a video game. She is looking to expand her music fan base as well as delve into more creative projects whether music, film or beyond.

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Rania Khoury returns after six years with “Inside My Head,” a single that radiates electric vulnerability. The track marks a reunion with producer SHOHN, with whom Khoury last collaborated on her acclaimed 2020 EP Tired/Wired.

Khoury’s creative evolution has been years in the making. Over the years, she’s earned praise from outlets like Central Track, D Magazine, The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Observer, which noted that her vocal prowess “sets her apart from a lot of female vocalists in Dallas.”

Her earlier work, including Stone Wolf (2013) and Upside Down (2017), introduced audiences to her signature mix of raw vulnerability and soulful pop sensibility. But it was  her last EP Tired/Wired, released in 2020, that really helped Khoury refine her sound and reach beyond the Dallas-music scene. Her single “When You Say My Name” gained traction in cities across the U.S. due to its coverage in music blogs and additions to playlists across Spotify.

Releasing Tired/Wired at the onset of the 2020 pandemic abruptly halted Rania Khoury’s plans for live performances and creative collaborations, forcing many of her artistic concepts to be shelved. As the world slowed down, so did she, using that pause to re-examine her life and priorities. During the height of lockdown, she began writing “Inside My Head”, but amid the uncertainty, anxiety, and creative paralysis of that period, she chose to step back, take a break from music, and focus on starting a family.

Why now? A Confident, Evolved Sound

Khoury has a new found confidence, something she felt was always missing. Witnessing the magnitude of tragedy and grief through the lens of global genocide and ecocide while simultaneously raising a child, has opened a creative and raw outlet within Khoury. With Inside My Head, Rania Khoury steps back into her creative space, channeling her emotional energy into making something deeply meaningful once more. The song is an emotional rollercoaster that explores the quiet ache of feeling unseen in a relationship that’s still standing but slowly unraveling. It’s about the push and pull between holding on and wondering if you’ve already started to lose what you’re fighting for.

Built on a slow, pulsing tension, the track swells and expands without ever releasing, capturing the ache of wanting too much and getting too little. Each rise of synth and layered vocal mirrors the chase for connection with someone already gone. The result is Khoury’s most confident and refined work yet, the sound of an artist who has grown both personally and creatively.

A Dallas Artist Reborn

Over the past decade, Khoury has become a fixture in the Dallas music community, performing at many venues throughout Dallas-Fort Worth and playing festivals such as Index Festival, Deep Ellum Arts Festival, Big Folkin’ Fest, and Boho Market, while opening for acts like St. Paul and The Broken Bones. Her discography, and the evolution it represents, tells the story of an artist unafraid to embrace both strength and vulnerability.