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
In a scene from Henry Barakat’s 1971 film Ebnati El Aziza (My Dear Daughter), the iconic Egyptian electric guitarist Omar Khorshid plays a slow building improvised solo in the kurd scale on his Fender Stratocaster. Dressed in a black dinner jacket and bow-tie with a slicked back hairstyle and charismatic smile, he stands alone on stage, his shadow extending out behind him onto a dreamlike set.
The camera switches to the enchanted audience watching his show. Legendary actor Rushdy Abaza and the singer Nagat al-Saghira are sitting in the front row. Then the camera zooms in on Khorshid’s distinctive fast-picking technique as he changes tempo and scale.