Son of a Polish mum and Lebanese dad (who met as immigrants into Britain in the 70s), his unusual teenage years forged in him an even greater musical need than most. Music was Tarek’s life, soon graduating in Sound Technology at Liverpool university with both a degree and a studio excellence award, with a simultaneous job as Home Studio Assistant for one of the masters of his craft, producer Markus Dravs (Coldplay, Arcade Fire, Florence + the Machine). As his ambitions grew, Tarek began to create music of his own.
Spring King was born, named after Tarek’s obsession at university for creating sound using spring reverb, “a classic, echo-ey reverb you hear on 60s surf records, so someone called me The Spring King”.
Spring King took to the road (“still an amateur band”, notes Tarek) playing over 200 shows, touring America (CMJ in 2014, SXSW in 2015), gaining BBC support from Zane Lowe, Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens and Annie Mac, touring with Slaves, Wolf Alice, Courtney Barnett and touring worldwide, with appearances on BBC’s Jools Holland and performing two years in a row at Reading and Leeds festival amongst many others around Europe, America and Australia.