Simor Jalal ( ar, ; born July 27, 1983 in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

), is an Iraqi singer, composer, and musician.

Career

He entered the music department of the Institute of Fine Arts in

in 1999 and completed his studies there in 2004. Simor studied the

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and Turkish saz, and is also fluent in playing the

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

and

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

. He has recorded many Iraqi songs, some of his own composing and others composed by well-known Iraqi composers. He first became well known in the Arab world due to his participation in MBC The Voice, a program on the channel MBC, where he got positive comments from all judges for his musical and vocal skills. He is also sang in

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and

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. In the summer of 2014 Simor participated in the

International Festival of Carthage The International Festival of Carthage ( ar, مهرجان قرطاج الدولي) is an annual music festival taking place in July and August since 1964 in the coastal city of Carthage (Tunisia). History It was established as a two-day Jazz fes ...

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as an honored guest in at a

Saber Rebaï Saber Rebai ( ar, صابر الرباعي, ''Saber al Ruba'i''; born 13 March 1967) is a Tunisian pan-Arab singer, actor, and composer of Yemeni Origin. He is known for his song " Sidi Mansour". Some albums carry the variant transliteration Sab ...

concert.

"Our people" Charity Campaign -with Naseer Shamma

Simor participated in the campaign (our people: Ahlona), along with Iraqi musician

Naseer Shamma Naseer Shamma ( ar, نصير شمه) is an Iraqi musician and oud player. He was born in 1963 in Kut, a city on the Tigris River. He began studying the oud at the age of 12 in Baghdad, following in the footsteps of Jamil and Munir Bashir. He re ...

in 2015. He held a charity concert to collect donations for Iraqi refugees; and at that concert he released two songs composed by musician

titled: ''Baghdad'' and ''Good morning, my mother''. This concert was released in the National Theater 04/05/2015 in Baghdad.

External links

Simor Jalal TV website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jalal, Simor 1983 births Living people Iraqi anti-war activists 21st-century Iraqi male singers People from Baghdad Singers who perform in Classical Arabic The Voice (franchise) contestants Iraqi composers Iraqi Christians Performers of Christian music in Arabic Turkish-language singers Syriac-language singers

Career

"Our people" Charity Campaign -with Naseer Shamma

See also

External links

References