Goraieb was born on 9 May 1935, in Deir al-Qamar, a small Christian village in Lebanon, to a French mother and Lebanese father.

In the 1950s, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under the tutelage of Marguerite Long and Germaine Mounier.

Goraieb was the first Lebanese artist to be invited to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées as a soloist as part of the Mardis de la RTF program.

[3] In the early 1980, he became a radio host on the France Musique program Les Archives lyriques.

[5] His final public concert took place in Beirut on 11 November 2018 with a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No.