Samir Joubran was born in Nazareth, Israel in 1973 in to a musical family - his father is a well-known oud maker and his mother is a singer. His father began to teach him the oud at the age of five, and at the age of nine he went on to study at the Music Institute in Nazareth. Samir later graduated from the Mohamed Abdul Wahab Conservatory in Cairo. He has performed throughout the Arab world, Europe and America, and is often accompanied on oud by his brother Wissam.