Muhammad Hussein

Sahra 93

• Aghrab Ya Dunia (Strangers, Oh World), Lyrics and Music by: Muhammad Hussein
• Ya Kahil Al Ein (Oh, Eyelined Woman), Lyrics and Music by: Muhammad Hussein
• Bahiyya (Glamorous), Lyrics by Abdel Wahab Muhammad, Music by Baleegh Hamdi
• Beini W Beinak (Between You and Me), Lyrics by Tarek Zaki, Music by Issam Karika

• Barhoum, Folklore, Folklore
• Ma T'oulhash (Don't Say It), Lyrics by Adel Omar, Music by Hameed Al Shaeri
• Sallamtak (I Handed You Over), Music by Kazem Al Saher
• Ya Helou La (No, Beautiful), Lyrics by Amal Al Ta'er, Music by Hassan Ash Ash

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Lyrics: Muhammad Hussein, Abdel Wahab Mohammed, Mohammed Tarek Zaki, Adel Amr and Amal Al Ta'er Composition: Muhammad Hussein, Baligh Hamdi, Isam Karika, Kadim Al Saher, Hassan Ash Ash

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This tape surprises us with its unexpected mix of influences, ranging from eighties tarab and shaabi from Egypt to contemporary Iraqi pop and Syrian shaabi. A mixture hard to find except with Muhammad Hussein, who broke stereotypes about Kurdish musicians and ventured into different fronts and eras of Arab music, finding harmonies between them that no one else had noticed before. We can notice this mix of influences in Muhammad Hussein's own songs on the tape, which he wrote and composed himself. Muhammad Hussein from the town of Afrin is considered one of the most prominent contemporary Kurdish Syrian shaabi singers. He began his artistic life at age thirteen, when he learned to play the buzuq by ear from his father, and was immersed in the styles of Afrin's great singers like Ali Tajo and Jamil Horo. Since then, he began performing Kurdish and Arabic songs from the worlds of heritage, tarab, and shaabi, some of which achieved great popularity such as his revival of the song Mariam Mariamtain, before later moving on to writing and composing his own songs and achieving notable success in that.