Mohamed Abdel Wahab is tagged as: arabic, egyptian, egypt, bellydance, world Mohammed Abdel Wahab was the most prolific Arabic |composer of his time, responsible for more than a |thousand songs. He personally sang hundreds. For his |orchestration of the Egyptian national anthem, Anwar |Sadat awarded him the rank of general. Abdel Wahab was born in 1907 in Cairo. He made his |first recording at the age of 13. In 1924 he was taken |under the wing of Ahmed Shawky, then known as the |Prince of Poets. Shawky saw to the furthering of Abdel |Wahab’s musical and literary education, so that in time |if Shawky was the Prince of Poets, Abdel Wahab was |known as the Singer to Princes and Kings. In the late 1920s Abdel Wahab wrote traditional |melodies, well suited to Shawky’s texts. But as |European rule replaced Ottoman rule, Western influences |affected local music. In particular, stage musicals in Arabic incorporated |Western elements. In 1926, it fell to Abdel Wahab to |complete a musical left unfinished by the late Said |Darwish, a great composer of the previous generation. |The musical centered on Antony and Cleopatra, and Abdel |Wahab himself played Antony to great acclaim. After visiting Paris and familiarizing himself with |French musical presentations, Abdel Wahab invented the |Arabic film musical. To a popular culture in wh... Read More About Mohamed Abdel Wahab Biography...  Send Mohamed Abdel Wahab ringtones to your cell
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