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The orchestra will also stick to the song sheets.
With the hologram tightly synchronised to the original music score, the orchestra’s role is to bolster the sounds and to create a truly natural live show environment.
Who is Abdel Halim Hafez?
Referred to as Al-Andaleeb Al-Asmar (The Black Nightingale), he was the quintessential Arabic singer.
Hafez’s romantic and patriotic songs, delivered with his sensual deep vocals, were defined by his subtlety.
Where his peers often expressed themselves in vocal histrionics, Hafez kept it cool with songs such as
Sawah and
Editorial – Hip Hop has been a colorful cornucopia of different genres since inception and samples have always been its essential building blocks. A producer finds a track they like, reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording and make it their own.
Still, veteran producer Timbaland found himself a trending Twitter topic on Monday (January 18) after he was accused of “stealing” samples for some of his biggest hits, begging the question, “Do some people
still not understand how Hip Hop works?”
A young woman by the name of Nooriyah kicked off the chatter after she shared a video of herself playing three Middle Eastern songs used in Timbaland’s work. The songs included the 1957 single “Khosara” by Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez (and later, Hossam Ramzy who released “Khosara Khosara” in 1994), which was heavily sampled for JAY-Z’s 2000 hit “Big Pimpin.”