Massar Egbari are an Egyptian Band from Alexandria, Egypt. The band members created that sarcastic name for the band since they felt that the society is trying to imply its power over people starting from their childhood till the day they die. This social power wants to stereotype everything including the way we think and feel, leaving no space for creation and innovation.Massar Egbari presents music and songs talking about our social problems. Love is not our main concern although it represents a part of our songs. Through the members' different musical backgrounds, the band is presenting a kind of Alternative Egyptian Music, mixing rock, Jazz and Blues with some Oriental music, giving the band it's own unique sound.Massar Egbari started in 2005, and played on almost all the Egyptian stages, and starting 2007 the band started to perform in Europe as it participated in Malta Arts Festival (Valletta-Malta) , Barisa Rock Festival - Rock for Peace (Istanbul-Turkey), The Biennale of young artists from Europe and the mediterranean (Bari-Italy)and some of the band members participated in Seven Gates Music Workshop (Skopje-Macedonia) with musicians from Macedonia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Turkey and Italy.WIKIPEDIA
Lebanese-Syrian singer/actress Nora Rahal was absent from the public eye for a long time in which she was being treated for breast cancer in Europe. She was virtually forgotten by the ever-changing music business. Thankfully, Nora was cured, and she returned in 2007 with a much stronger effort than her previous album. Dounyeti... Ahla was composed by Nora Rahal herself, Riyad El Hamshari, and a team of talented Lebanese composers: Tarek Abou Jaoudeh, George Marderosian, Iwan, and Haitham Zayyad. Aadi, Dounyeti... Ahla, and especially Azeb Albi and Ma Y'oulou are great songs that really reaffirm Nora's place in the music scene. The good tracks dominate in this album, with only one or two lackluster songs. Wel Ah is a good song but demands a much wider vocal range, and Ajmal Hawa is dull compared to the rest of this stellar album.http://tabbouchemusic.blogspot.com/2008/08/nora-rahal-dounyeti-ahla.html
Pascale Bechara Mashaalani or better known as Pascale Machaalani, born March 27, 1964 (Arabic: باسكال مشعلاني) is a Murex D'or Award nominated Lebanese singer. Her debut album Sahar Sahar rose her to stardom throughout the Middle East, making Mashalaani one of the most successful female artistes in the 90's Lebanon. She released her second and third albums, Nazrat Ayounak and Banadi with continued success. Her seventh studio album, Nour el Shams released in 2002 was a phenomenal success which exceeded sales of 250,000[citation needed] thus making her the first Arab singer to be certified double platinum[citation needed]. She has released thirteen hit studio albums and twenty-seven singles.Machaalani is currently one of the most active Lebanese singers and has performed in a number countries, beginning from her native Lebanon to Europe and USA. She is signed to Rotana, the biggest record company in the Middle East.Wikipedia
Born in Beirut, the future "Janine D" grew up in the world of Art-Movie and Arabic Music. She was only six years old when her two parents Mounir (Egyptian) and Gladys (Lebanese) used to manage and own in Cairo. The hotel who became with time the most famous “Point de Rendez-Vous” for all singers and actors from the Arab world but also from Europe and even America. In the family’s Hotel, the future star yet still a young girl met and sang with many music stars or movie makers like Julio Eglesias, Dalida, Omar Sharif, Walid Toufic, Ragheb Alemeh, Hussein and Moudy El Imam, Adel Imam, and many, many more... This was also the place where many young Arabic artists, producers, yet unknown from the public, made their first steps and started their career. From Cairo, the whole family moved to New-York, the most fascinating cosmopolitan city in the world, Mecca of music, art and fashion, a city bubbling with life and ideas. Moreover, New-York is the city of the largest musical diversity where music of all kinds converges, where artists coming from all over the world rush to accomplish their secret dream and to one day become a star.She was gifted by nature with a voice-of-a-kind, one extremely warm and full of Mediterranean character, obviously enough powerful to one day integrate and mix in total harmony different sounds, different musical languages. To gain such feature, the future artist has worked hard perfecting her singing technique in the prestigious Herbert Berghof Conservatory where she studied art & musical theater and from which she finally graduated. Yet, our future star remained authentically oriental and though couldn’t limit herself just to her exceptional voice and singing technique so she worked even harder on dancing and acting enabling her body to absorb all types of rhythms and to exhale strength and sensuality.Living in city like New York, the future star evolved and has progressively absorbed many types of music. She became familiar with styles of dozens of most talented musicians and art professors who cultured her to blend her signature sound by composing her own music and her own lyrics and also to confront crowds during number of live-concerts she performed in New-York and in many other US or western-European cities, revealing an incredible power and talent to communicate with crowds or audiences. Last but not least, our future star understood better all the different aspects of the music industry of both art-creation and production: lyrics, music, mix, arrangement, mastering, photos, clips, marketing and brand-recognition, live-concert features, choreography….In total, the future star has spent 12 years of her life in New-York and this is where she became "Janine D". In 2003, "Janine D" decided that time has came for her to “move back to the East” and to present herself to the Arabic public as an authentic Egyptian-Lebanese artist. “When focusing on the craft of performing and songwriting, I always wanted my voice to shine through…But to me, relevance means above all staying honest about what you are…The most important thing for me as an Artist is maintaining my authenticity”.(Janine D).With that thoughts in her mind, "Janine D" decided to carry a genuine but challenging approach for presenting her oriental music, where sensuality goes with self-confidence and professionalism and where female artists would not be anymore presented to the public through bunch of “clichés” but where they would be giving a new image, as an acceptable synthesis between the necessary requirement of a modern life and their old traditional yet authentic values.http://fi-fi.facebook.com/pages/Janine-D/52203124848
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