In 2009, during a visit in Beirut, she meets Ziad Rahbani and hits the road on a Middle Eastern tour with him, singing jazz standards. Back in Beirut, she immerses herself into the local music scene and performs with her own band in prestigious places like the Phoenicia, Habtoor and Le Gray hotels, Razz’zz jazz club, Al Madina Theater and more.

During all those years of discovery, Sae wrote her own music, a self-representative smooth blend of her globe-trotting experiences, giving birth to “THE QUEST”, her first original soulful pop album.