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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… إلنا خل / فوق النخل) “Fog al-Nakhal,” is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” song, a … Mosul to Baghdad to study Iraqi maqam from the greatest singers of his time. [1] In this context, the melody …
Nitzan Hen Razael
… Razael grew up in Jerusalem in a musical family. His grandfather was a cellist. He studied in the high school close to the Academy of Music and Dance in … Nitzan-Chen Razael youtube channel … Violinist & Singer … Piyyutim … Composers … Piyyut … Violin … Jewish …
Armand Sabah
… and immigrated to Israel with his family at age ten. His father came from a musical family related to the renowned Moroccan singer and composer Sami Elmagribi. The love of music in …
Dudu Tassa
… David 'Dudu' Tassa is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer of Mizrahi … had a successful solo career in Israel, Tassa has been the leader of the internationally acclaimed band Dudu Tassa and the …
Jeff Klepper
… Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the singer-songwriter style that took over American synagogue …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… highly regarded for his renditions of al-maqam al-‘Iraqi (the Iraqi maqam ). Like other performers, he learned the tradition while listening to … Nuri Sa‘id, according to Na‘im Twayna. Like most maqam singers, Shibith also worked in a second profession; he …
Hisqil Qassab
… Hesqil Kassab was one of the most famous Iraqi maqam reciters in the twentieth century. He was the title of pioneer of … in Maqam, and he was almost one of the most prominent Iraqi singers from among the Jews of Iraq. 'Hesqil Saul Qassab …
Milo Hamamah
… Well-known singer of Iraqi music in Israel. Born in Iraqi, immigrated … motivated by ethnic pride. Occasionally attempted to sing the Iraqi maqam. See: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. See Milu Hamama's YouTube channel. Selected …
Abraham Salman
… Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players of this instrument in the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music … a favored accompanist of some of Iraqi's best-known Arab singers. Salman immigrated to Israel in 1950 and was a …
Yaqub Murad al-‘Amari (aka Yaqub Bar-Nay)
… Murad was a multi-instrumentalist employed by the Iraqi Broadcasting Ensemble in Baghdad as oud and nay player as well as composer, until he moved to Israel in the beginning of the 1950s. After immigration to Israel he worked as a singer, recorded Iraqi maqamat, pastat, and “mainstream” …