Faris is a musician, singer-songwriter and Being who dances to the rhythms of silent waves. Amongst other wonderful facets of his ever-evolving being that he lives. Music and the arts have been a constant joy by his side throughout his life. Spurred by the pleasure and passion of creating and enjoying music and the arts, he pursued music as an expression of his life. Although he has never had formal training in music growing up due to his challenging personal circumstances, he now felt inspired to start learning music theory more formally, from the South Asian tradition, since February 2025.

While he acknowledges that music is a vast unexplored territory, and he had never had any kind of formal music lessons or courses prior, he participated in several national and international competitions before 2025. Following his dedication to music and the arts as a gift and expression of his love for all life, he has won several international and local music competitions and clinched prestigious awards such as, Silver (Voice, Professional Category) Prize Winner of the 2023 Euro-Elite International Music Competitions | Unique Interpretation Award of the 2023 UK International Music Competition | Bronze Prize Winner out of 2 Winners Internationally in the Voice, Professional Category, of the 2023 Grand Metropolitan International Music Competition | Silver (Voice, Professional Artist Category) Prize Winner of the 2022 - 2023 Canadian International Music Competition | Second Prize Winner (Vocal, Professional Category) of the 2023 UK International Music Competition. His music and music achievements have been featured in national Malay news, a national news studio, and other platforms.

Faris has emceed for events such as International Migrants' Day, weddings, national arts events and many more. He has emcee-ed in Malay, Mandarin, French and English, along with other languages. His first emceeing in French was during the Olympiades Francophones (Southeast Asian French Language Competition), where he won first prize over 19 other finalists from the 10 ASEAN countries. He was asked to “pretend” to be an unofficial emcee or guide for a tour around a tourist spot as a joke. He enjoyed it, and this inspired in him the passion and joy in engaging and interacting with different peoples from all walks of life, in different languages, around a common shared vision - through emceeing and other ways.

Faris has played roles such as education and youth policy officer, tech product policy manager, branding and curriculum lead, strategy lead, manpower lead and social science and interdisciplinary researcher.

He is a dedicated and passionate teacher, educator, mentor, coach and learning facilitator. He has taught students from various backgrounds - corporate leaders, postgraduate students, primary school students to junior college students, Islamic madrasah students, Catholic priests-in-training, adult learners, social service professionals, and many others. Faris taught subjects as varied as mathematics and physics, Malay and French, theatre and debate, as well as interdisciplinary studies and perspectives. He has also taught in Malay, French, Arabic & English. Faris has tutored Asian Studies and Malay Studies in the National University of Singapore (NUS), and won teaching awards from NUS. He also won the SuperTeacher award for his voluntary role as trainer in a social service agency. He has also been engaged for curriculum and pedagogical design and educational & brand consultancy.

Faris was awarded a certificate of recognition for being an Outstanding Mentor for the Asian Environmental Youth Network, where he mentored in Arabic and English for youths who were based in countries including Yemen (Arabic speaking only), China and Nepal. He has also coached various counterparts from France, Singapore, Hong Kong and many others, in languages such as French, Malay, Mandarin and English.

Faris was also awarded a scholarship to be trained in Compassion-Based Approaches to Working with Shame. He incorporates emotional learning in his coaching, mentoring, teaching and facilitation. In addition, he obtained qualifications and certifications in Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance from the Insititute for Adult Learning Singapore based in the Singapore University of Social Sciences. He has obtained the Foundation Certification for the Teaching Assistant’s Programme, a Mental Health Literacy Credential and Suicide Prevention Credential from the National University of Singapore. He values approaching teaching, mentoring, coaching and learning facilitation carefully from holistic health orientations, bolstered by his lived experience of physical and mental health challenges.

Faris has been leading teams or projects in organisations such as the Singapore Public Service, a leading tech company, a global climate change and mental health advisory, and the Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change hosted by the United Nations Institute of Training and Research and Future Earth. He has worked as a 3P consultant and trainer in curriculum development, educational strategy, diversity, and security related issues.

Faris publishes and writes in languages like Malay, French & English. He has published academic or research articles, book chapters & thinkpieces, alongside other creative works such as poetry & film analyses & reviews. Faris has published academic & research pieces in platforms like Taylor and Francis, Springer Nature, BERITA, Fulcrum, ISEAS Perspectives, Karyawan and Journal UIN Said. Faris’ other publications are on news platforms and online arts and literary magazines such as BERITAMediacorp, The Straits Times, Berita Harian, and The MockingOwl Roost. He is Commissioning Editor, Staff Writer, Reviewer & Performing Artist at The MockingOwl Roost. He is an author of research and academic publications on climate change & climate change and mental health on platforms such as ClimaHealth (World Metereological Organization; World Health Organisation) & Springer Nature. Faris is also listed on the United Nations Network on Migration’s Expert Database. Faris was blessed with amazing privileges to advocate for diverse groups through his work and research. He was featured in Tamil Murasu, the national Tamil newspaper in Singapore, for his research and advocacy work on the Tamil Speaking community in Singapore, which he presented at the international Tamil Youth Conference. Faris was appointed Class Champion and Class Ambassador by the National University of Singapore in 2015. In more recent years, Faris was awarded the prestigious National University of Singapore Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2023, and was featured in the news with other awardees.

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