El Hachmi Guerouabi

El-Hadj El Hachmi Guerouabi (born January 6, 1938, in Algiers, Algeria - died July 17, 2006 in Paris, France) was an Algerian singer and composer of Chaâbi and one of the Grand Masters of the Algiers-based Chaâbi music.He was born in El Mouradia (Algiers) and grew up in Bélouizdad (formerly Belcourt). Two passions occupied Guerouabi's childhood:...

Ali Hassan Kuban

Ali Hassan Kuban was an Egyptian musician. He was born in a small village in Nubia in 1929 or 1933 (sources differ on that point) and died in Cairo in 2001.Ali Hassan Kuban began his musical career as a child singing on the boats on the Nile. In 1942 he moved with his parents to Cairo where he learned to play several musical instruments.He...

Koor195

Koor is one of the pioneer singers who made oriental rock music a commercial music in Arab world that is why his fans called him (King Of Oriental Rock), actually he is composing and writing most of his songs trying to make a new image for the oriental music to reach the global music classifications.Koor had a bachelor degree in interior...

Ramy Sabry

Before graduating from the music academy in Egypt , he had already started .His musical career by composing songs for few of the famous singers , such as Amer Moneeb , Sherine and Fadl Shaker .Ramy sabry him self is a young singer whose future is blooming.In 2005 he encountered director tarek alrian who immediately decided to adopt ramy’s...

Azam Ali

Azam Ali was born in Iran but spent most of her early years in India before moving to the US in the mid eighties. She is a vocalist of astonishing diversity with a range covering music from the mediaeval European to the classical Eastern - Persian, Lebanese and Indian.In November 1995, along with Greg Ellis, Ali formed Vas, producing four...

Mohamed Nour

Mohamed Nour : Was born on January 18th in Cairo . His handsome looks and strong physique have made him very popular with the ladies and turned him into an admired heartthrob with the fans. However, his looks do not undermine his passion and talent for music. His love for the violin and the passion of his lyrics are all indications of a very...

RACHID TAHA

Rachid Taha (Arabic: رشيد طه‎) (born 1958 in Oran, Algeria) is an French-Algerian musician. His music is influenced by many different styles such as rock, techno and raï.Based in Paris, France where he began his solo career after his beginnings as the leader of the French rock band Carte de Séjour, he usually sings in Arabic. In 1981, while...

Biyouna

Image via WikipediaBiyouna (Baya Bouzar) is an Algerian singer, dancer, actress born in 1952 in Belcourt, Algiers, Algeria.Inhabited by a very early passion for singing, she has been a member of several groups, first in Fadela Dziria's group where she played tambourine, and another that she directed with her accomplice Flifla, and finally...

Omar Souleyman

Omar Souleyman is a Syrian musical legend. Since 1994 he and his musicians have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout Syria, but until now they have remained little-known outside of the country. To date, they have issued more than 500 studio and live recorded cassette albums which are easily spotted in the shops of any Syrian city. Born...

Shadia Mansour

Shadia Mansour British born Palestinian at 21 years of age delivers her melodic voice, in both English and Arabic, blending traditional and classical Middle Eastern sounds into smooth but powerful soul. At 18, Shadia wrote and produced her own album "Incomplete" performing at various venues including the famous 'Soul Cafe' in downtown Manhattan.Opening...

Lotfi Double Kanon

Lotfi was born on 06/07/1974 in Annaba, father of a worker is a mother at home.He grew up in a modest family composed of a brother and two sisters.All university graduates.Environment creation and motivation in him the thirst for knowledge.Degrees:BA-Mathematics series in 1992 in Annaba.-Engineer status in 1998 in geology from the University...

Abdy

Abdy, a recent signing to the V2 label, is typical of the young fusion generation currently emerging on the French music scene. Born in Morocco, but growing up in France, Abdy has always been plugged into two different musical cultures, so for him the mix of Western sounds and Oriental rhythms comes naturally. Abdy received a formal music...

Bigg

Image via WikipediaTaoufiq Hazeb (Arabic: توفيق حازب‎) (born in 1983) better known by his stage name Bigg and Alkhaser, is a Moroccan rapper from Casablanca. He is considered one of the pioneers of Moroccan rap, mainly for his aggressive style and for his songs' themes, which express problems within many of Moroccans.Born in 1983 in the "Roches...

Yasser Habib

Yasser Habeeb is an innovative, enterprising producer and Arabic/Gulf –Oriental crossover singer from the UAE. He started his career in 1992 and was heavily involved in studio production work for a number of local artists but it was in the summer of 2000 when Yasser approached EMI Music Arabia with his Indian influenced mystical song “Elama”...

Cheb Mami

Cover of DellaliCheb Mami (Arabic: شاب مامي‎, Ahmed Khelifati Mohamed, born July 11, 1966) is an Algerian-born raï singer. His birth was in Graba-el-wed, a populous quarter of Saida. Located 170 kilometres south of Oran, the city of Saida is on the high mesas of southwestern Algeria.He sings and speaks in Algerian Arabic, French and sometimes,...

Desert Heat

Desert Heat is an Arab hip hop group originating from the UAE (United Arab Emirates). Formed in late 2002, Desert Heat consists of two Emirati brothers Salim Dahman known as ‘Illmiyah’ (eel-mee-yah) and Abdullah Dahman known as ‘Arableak’.Desert Heat primarily rap in English, but the majority of their songs contain some Arabic language content....

K'naan

Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, K'naan spent his childhood in the district of Wardhiigleey ("The Lake of Blood") during the Somali Civil War, which began in 1991. His aunt, Magool, was one of Somalia's most famous singers. K'naan's grandfather, Haji Mohamed, was a poet. K'naan is also a Muslim. His name, K'naan, means "traveller" in the Somali...

Intik

INTIK - Soldat from zoomalgerie on Vimeo.Intik (Arabic: أنتيك; pronounced: [æn.ti:k]) is an Algerian rap group consisting of four MCs. The group raps in both Algerian Arabic dialect and French and often drawing upon the violence all four experienced while growing up in turbulent Algeria during the 80s and 90s. The name Intik in Algerian dialect...

Lowkey

Lowkey (via last.fm)Lowkey (born Kareem Dennis, 23rd May 1986) is a British musician, poet, playwright and political activist of English and Iraqi descent. He first came to fame through a series of mixtapes he released before he was 18, before taking a hiatus from the music business. He would return in 2008 with wider music coverage, featured...

Doctor Phreaker

Doctor Phreaker -Also Known As :Sha3er el Vicodin -Born: 10 June 1987 -Occupation : Rapper - Music Producer & Song Writer -Education: School Of Medicine -Cairo University - -Genere: Hardcore Rap -Doctor Phreaker "aka" Vicodin Poet is a Song Writer, Hardcore Rap Performer , Music Composer and Producer. -Began Rapping at the Age of 15 With...