Naim Al Sheikh

Tahet Al Dawali (Beneath the Grapevine)

• Ataba
• Arabic Dabke

• Ataba
• Btethkor Tahet Al Dwali (Do You Remember When We Were Beneath the Grapevines?)

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Artist Origin

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Keyboards: Abdul Raheem Al Saleh

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Naim Al-Sheikh comes from the city of Rastan in Homs, where he began singing at parties and weddings in 1996. As his popularity increased at the onset of the 2000s, he began singing in cities further afield, then Lebanon and and to wider circles with the help of his cousin, who was his manager for many years. Al Sheikh sang mawal, attaba and dabke songs, in addition to pop and other genres associated with Syrian coastal styles of singing. A detail of note associated with Al-Sheikh’s early career; during most of the mawal or sad songs he performed at parties, he repeatedly sang about a girl named Samira — so often, that he was sometimes referred to as Naim Samira. The lamenting of this mysterious Samira was assumed to be a reference lamenting a tragic past relationship. Today, Naim Al Sheikh is married and lives with his family in Damascus.