Once the epicentre of music in the Arabic-speaking world, Egypt finds it increasingly hard to meet the financial needs of its local musicians, who are looking to the Gulf states for more lucrative ...
Was Abdel Halim Hafez, Egypt’s most celebrated classical singer, actually a rockstar?With his crisp black suits and neatly ...
The Academy has previously held Grammy House events in Los Angeles and New York but hasn’t taken the concept outside the US ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A Dutch DJ is bringing underground Egyptian street music to Western night clubs with the hope that it will paint the troubled North African country in a better light. Music producer ...
A kiss was enough to get Ragheb Alama suspended from one of the Arab world’s biggest music markets. The 63-year-old Lebanese singer is currently banned from performing in Egypt following a decision by ...
The sun has set on Travis Scott’s plans to bring his “Utopia” concert to the Egyptian pyramids. Live Nation Middle East, which had previously assured ticket-holders that the show would go on in the ...
Imagine a style of music that combines funk, jazz, R&B, soul — a fusion that becomes powerful enough to create a political movement and inflames a nation’s authoritarian leadership. That’s the West ...