Fathy Salama (Arabic فتحي سلامة; born 27 March 1969, in

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) is a Grammy Award-winning

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musician, who usually appears with his ensemble Sharkiat (شرقيات, "Easterners"). Salama grew up listening to the radio, which played artists who placed a deep influence upon him. His childhood influences were musicians

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Mohammed Abdel Wahab ''Mohamed Abdel Wahab'' ( ar, محمد عبد الوهاب), also transliteration, transliterated ''Mohamed Abd El-Wahhab'' (March 13, 1902 – May 4, 1991), was a prominent 20th-century Egyptian singer, actor, and composer. He is best known fo ...

and

Farid El Atrache Farid al-Atrash ( ar, فريد الأطرش; October 19, 1916 – December 26, 1974), also written Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor. Having immigrated to Egypt at the age of only nine ...

. These artists influenced him so much that he decided to get involved with music; he then started to create his own versatile style of music, from playing the

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from the age of six and followed by gigging in Cairo clubs from the age of thirteen. Soon the child of

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, the '

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of Cairo', made visits to Europe and to New York City to learn

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with such artists as

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, and Pat Patrick. He progressed to making plenty of hits in Cairo during the 1980s. He has been touring the world, and he has won two prizes for his film soundtracks for ''Fallen Angels Paradises'' and ''Signs of April''. It is with Sharkiat (his own group) that Fathy is making his dreams come true of merging modern and traditional music together. Fathy has collaborated in electronic music with Kouchari or his meeting with Alix Roy, and in sacred music on ''Egypt'', the

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album (Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album and BBC Award). Fathy held a lot of workshops to help amateurs with his experience, which produced -workshops- artists such as

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and others.

Discography

* ''Ibn Battuta'' 1994 Schneeball with

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* ''Color Me Cairo'' 1995

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with

* ''Sultany'' 2006 (Incognito Rec.)

Performance

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, USA, 2014: Fathy Salama performed with Al-Bustan Takht Ensemble as part of Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture concert series.

References

External links

afropop.org

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