Huda Sabour was born in Iraq. She grew up in Baghdad with her four sisters and two brothers, with loving parents of Persian descent. Her earliest music memories are of playing the dumbek at the age of two, learning on the family piano, and chanting verses from the Koran in School. She graduated from Baghdad University with a degree in Food Technology.

Sabour left Iraq in 1981 to escape the regime. The injustice and the years of imprisonment left her with a strong understanding of the value of political and personal freedom. She met her English husband Ian in Ireland shortly after leaving Iraq and married in Dun Laoghaire just south of Dublin in May 1982. Later that year the couple emigrated and settled in New Zealand. She was one of the first Iraqis to enter the country, settling eventually in the capital city, Wellington .The couple now have five children.

Sabour is multi-lingual; speaking Arabic, English, Farsi and some Turkish. She has worked as a translator, interpreter, language teacher, Middle Eastern dance teacher, and singer. Her passions are music, dance and language: skills that she uses to their fullest in producing spectacular Middle Eastern Dance and music shows.

Sabour met White Cloud artist Phillip Riley when he was looking for Arabic vocals for a track on the
A Pattern of Lands CD. This was so successful that they decided to collaborate on a completely new hybrid work featuring Arabic singing and western influences. Riley composed the music and wrote English lyrics, which Sabour would then take home to translate. She remembers the challenge of keeping the lyrical content sing-able whilst ensuring it worked in Arabic, Farsi or Bedouin (the "language of the desert"). On other tracks such as Daar al Salaam (Abode of Peace) she wrote of her dreams of peace and of her separation from her family.