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    Asrawy

    Asrawy

    Asrawy is a highly talented saxophonist based in the United Arab Emirates.

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    Hossam

    Hossam

    Hi my name is Hossam.

    I am a professional musician and instrumental drummer

    i have been playing drums for 25 years

    i am play many style of music including funk, rock, latin, arabic pop, and khaleeji

    i had great experience playing with other musicians

    and i am ready for any band or event

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    JazzM Band

    JazzM Band

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    We are a musical group consists of youth professional musicians and female singer who love Jazz & Blues music.

    Our group has been established in January 2018 and it is currently located in Alexandria, Egypt.

    Our Objectives:

    We are seeking to join worldwide Jazz festivals and entertainment

    companies through live performance as we believe that we have the ability to offer amazing music and performance.

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    Jiggy Band

    Jiggy Band

    Jiggy Band is a talented Funk Rock band based in Egypt.

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    Kareem Dashti

    Kareem Dashti

    Kareem Dashti is a talented DJ currently based in Egypt.

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    Karim Yousry

    Karim Yousry

    Karim Yousry is one of Egypt's youngest DJs to break through the scene and perform alongside international artists. His career started in 2003 after he was inspired by various underground artists. From observing to learning, he managed to weave a style of his own.

    Karim uses music to tell stories, he loves jumping from one area to another with a distinct deepness to his sound.

    After sharing the bill with international acts such as Artbat, Mark Knight, Nick Warren, Monkey Safari, Citizen Kain, Karmon, Olivier Weiter & many more. His carefully selected track selection accompanied by his storytelling flow in music has made him on par with artists that seek unique sounds, not popularity.

    Leading Cairo's weekday nightlife with his dazzling "Abstrakt" event encouraging the local upcoming talents and inviting some of the most decent international artists to create a space for the audience to listen to underground sets on a non-judgemental dancefloor.

    One of the highlights of 2018 was winning the decoded magazine "mix of the month" competition, besides the successful signature morning gig "Tangerine" by the Nile.

    His continuous digging for rare old hidden gems and micro house sounds gives an edge to his signature sound.

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    Madina

    Madina

    Madina is an Egyptian Rock and Jazz band that sings about walks of life in Egypt with simple Arabic lyrics and melody and using sophisticated sounds and funky grooves- The band has started with its current formation has started in the beginning of 2014, with a great kick start they did the famous hit song

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    Michelle Rounds

    Michelle Rounds

    Jazz vocalist, Michelle Rounds, based in Egypt is a 3rd generation professional singer/songwriter of Pacific Island heritage.

    She covers many genres and is renowned for her courageous and versatile scatting. With a wide vocal range, she continually delights her audiences with spontaneous creativity and superb musicianship.

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    Mido Alaa

    Mido Alaa

    Mido Alaa is a highly talented DJ with over 26 years of experience, currently based in Egypt.

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    Mizo

    Mizo

    Mizo is a master percussionist having practiced and polished his art all his live, he is considered by many to be Egypt's finest and funkiest drums artist, and considered by many to be among the best in the world at what he does.

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    Mostafa Elbadri

    Mostafa Elbadri

    As a musician, I have been privileged enough to be able to travel around the world and gain not only delve into the many different cultures, but also gain in- sight into the different styles of music. Living in cities such as London, New York, Brussels, and Moscow has allowed me to become more open-minded in addi- tion to helping me gain some insight into the creative and cultural differences and similarities we all share. I have been drummng since early 2007 in London where I began my musical journey. Studying in London provided me with great insight into the music industry as i was given the opportunity to study the Trinty Guildhall cirriculum for the “Drum Kit”. After completing the classc Trinty exams, I moved back here to Cairo, where I continued to pursue my drumming career and education and began the process to complete the Rock & Pop exams. Throughout this time period I began perrformng alongisde other well established muscians like Samer George, Yehya Khalil and Nesma Mahgoub. Now I am a faculty member of Bandmakers Egypt, where I teach drums to students of all ages, and perform as a freelancing drummer for other musical enssemmbles.

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    MotherFunkers

    MotherFunkers

    MotherFunkers is a talented DJ Duo, based in Egypt.

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    Nour Project

    Nour Project

    The members of the bands are:

    Nour Ashour: Saxophone and Vocals

    Performing regularly with the Egyptian superstar Mohamed Mounir, in live concerts in Egypt and abroad, he plays since 2003 with “Ressala band”, “El door el awal” band, “Crash Boom” Band, “Vybe” band, “Fiesta Latina” or “Sundial band” and performed with professional Dj’s like the Lebanese Saeed Morad y Hady DJ, the Egyptians Samba, Amr Hosny, RORO and Hisham Sabra. He has toured and performed also with some of the most recognized musicians and singers in the Middle East & Africa: Tamer Hosny, Hisham Abbas, Sherin Abdelwehab, Tamer Ashour, Mahmod Esseily, Zeezee, Karim Mohsen, Mohamed Maghrabi, West El Balad, Black Teema, Basheer and Salalem band from Egypt; Abdelfattah El Gereeny from Morocco, Ragheb Alama and Myriam Fares from Lebanon, Saber El Robayi from Tunisia, Asala nasri from Syria, Aziz maraca from Jordan.

    Wael Badrawy: Keyboard

    Sound designer/ engineer, music producer and arranger since 1995, he plays also with “Yahia Ghannam”, “Nagham Masry”, “Taboo”, “19th band”, “Crash Boom”, “Resala” and others.

    He has composed music for programmes at the Nile Channels, scored for independent movies in 1999 such as "Habbet Sokkar", composed many TV commercials and channel promo's. He produces short films, animation, games and radio applications. He composed for Dream TV Program about Ahmed Fouad Negm (2007); JSC Documentary: “Islam In Central Asia” (2002), “Tawfik El Hakim” (2010), “lam akon antawy” (2011),“Mahmoud Al Gohary” (2014); Short movie “kayf tarany” (2013);.

    Mohamed Nabil: Percussions

    With a clear influence from Latin and African music, he is always curious to discover new music and new instruments to explore.

    He plays also with “Soot Fel zahma”, Khaled Shams, “Khaltabeta”, “Fuego“ and has played with the Alexandrian music Bands “Gipsea”, “Massar Egbari”... He has accompanied several famous singers and musicians in Alexandria and Cairo like Muhammad Hamaki, Tamer Hosney, Amer Mounib & Tamer Ashour. He performed in international music festivals such as International Biennale of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean Skopje- FYROMacedonia (2009); Adriatico Mediterraneo Festival in Ancona- Italy (2009); Sauti Za Busara Music Festival Zanzibar- Tanzania (2010). He also leads regularly drum circles.

    Marwan W. Zaki: Drums

    Born March 13, 1990, Cairo, Egyot, Marwan began his entertainment career as a teenager sort of becoming the underground "star drummer".

    Marwan plays currently with the band The Jokers, and also with the Cadillacs. In the past couple of years his talent has become more and more a proof to people everywhere that Cairo that Marwan can shine in all types of music styles, including jazz, Latin, Rock, Blues, and fusion.

    Marwan performs with unmatched dexterity, his energy translated into one of the best sounding grooves out there, simply he sweaps people off their feet when he is on his drum set!

    Marwan has been growing into being highly influenced by series of musicians. Among those his prime influences in music are the Beatles, from which he draws most of his inspirations.

    Marwan has joined Nour Project in 2015 becoming a crucial member of the band in its musical development.

    Ahmed Hossam El-Din Derbala: Vocal & Spanish guitar He started to play music and sing at 14 years old, encouraged by his pianist grandfather. He is influenced by the Gypsy Kings as if feels they are very close to Arabic gypsies.

    For Ahmed “music is all around us, we just have to listen to it”. He plays also with “Ressala”, “7 tones”, “Khaltabeta”, “Fuego“. He sings in Arabic, Spanish, French and English

    He performed in Chicago (Illinois, USA) with "Classical Revolution Chicago organization" (March 2013) and at the International University music festival, Belfort- France (2014).

    Abdallah Abozekry: saz

    He studied Saz in the Arab Oud House with a Syrian-Kurdish teacher, then he graduated by the age of 15 to become the first and the youngest teacher for Saz in the Arab world. He is currently working as a teacher at Arab Oud House in Cairo.

    At 14 years old, he won the 3rd place in the Saz international competition in 2009 held by Selhi Al Wadi institute. Not yet 20 years old, he won the 1st place in the Saz international competition organised by the Cairo Opera House at the 23rd Arab Music Festival (2014).

    He is a member of "Orchestra Al Sharq" and "Bait Al Oud Orchestra" directed by Mr. Naseer Shamma

    In summer 2013 he joined "The curfew musical project 2013" where musicians were playing all night during the curfew at the Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts.

    In January 2013, he started his own project "Abdallah Abozekry Quartet" to play his own originals.

    He is also member in other musical projects like "Safi band", "Kareem Hossam Jazz group".

    He took part in several workshops: "Remix Asia 2011", "Ethno Cyprus 2013" and in a workshop in 2014 with the incredible Palestinian Kamilya Joubran. He performed in Cairo Jazz Festival in 2013 and in Oufuqy Music Festival Vol.III in July 2014 with the support of the Goethe Institut in Alexandria.

    He has performed already a lot in Egypt and in several countries such as UAE, Qatar, Oman and Tunisia. Lebanon. He went to France for a tour with his elder brother (Mohamed Abozekry) and his band (Heejaz) and performed at l'Institut du monde arabe.

    Fady Badr: Keyboard & Qanoun

    He started to play on keyboard since he was 7 years old and started to learn the zither when he was in college. He plays also with Fathi Salama,Yehia Khalil, Bashir, “Resala” and “Ashra Gharby”.

    He has played as well in international music festivals in France, Malta, Italy, Qatar, Dubai, Bahrain and Bulgaria.

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    Ahmed Abayazeid: Vocals and guimbre

    As a close relative of Mohamed Mounir, he has grown up surrounded by music. He sings in Arabic, Nubian and English. He sings also with “30th of feb. Band”, “Kaza Mood” band, “Hawedro Band”.

    He has recorded songs for TV: in 2003, "Allah Ya Al-Aaly" a soufian original music peace composed by Baher Gamal and lyrics by Mohamed Abdallah, which has been launched at Dream tv as being streamed on the channel every day by the time of Fajr prayer, and in 2011 for mobinil advertisement - "malnash gheer baad".

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    Philip Anwar

    Philip Anwar

    Philip Anwar is a talented singer, keyboardist, session/touring musician, music producer, and sound engineer based in Egypt.

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    Rasta Bass

    Rasta Bass

    Rasta Bass is a talented bassist based in Egypt.

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    Reem Abd El-wahab

    Reem Abd El-wahab

    Reem Abdelwahab a saxophonist from Alexandria,Egypt who started her music career from a young age before she moved to cairo to study under numerous big-name musical influences in her community while attending college at the faculty of Music Education. Reem continue to Pursue her career through taking part in many concerts with bands and solo performances influenced by pop,funk and jazz music.

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    Saad Elfiky

    Saad Elfiky

    Saad Elfiky is a talented guitarist, based in Egypt, Cairo.

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    Sadeem Band

    Sadeem Band

    Sadeem Band was founded in 2016 by a group of Aliens who come from different planets, landed on Earth for thousands of years.

    Trying to communicate with human beings however it seems impossible until they start to use music and songs to communicate with humans.

    Playing various types of music genres and using (skate singing) technics to apply different moods & cultures to their music.

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    Shady Maher

    Shady Maher

    Experienced DJ performing at diverse venues — from weddings to clubs and pubs — creating dynamic vibes and unforgettable experiences.

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    Soul Trains of Egypt

    Soul Trains of Egypt

    Soul Trains of Egpyt are a highly talented band, based in Egypt.

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    Wave

    Wave

    Wave is a talented flutist and saxophonist, based in Egypt.

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