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Songs for Beginners is the debut solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.Released in May 1971, it was one of four high-profile albums (all charting within the top fifteen) released by each member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album of 1970, along with After the Gold Rush (Neil Young, September 1970), Stephen Stills (Stephen ...
Omar Bashir (Arabic: عمر بشير) is an Iraqi-Hungarian musician of Assyrian descent. He is the son of Munir Bashir, who is widely considered to be one of the most important virtuosos in the history of the oud and a master of the modal tradition of Arabic maqam, as well as the nephew of expert oud player Jamil Bashir.
The oud (Arabic: عود, romanized: ʿūd, pronounced) [1] [2] [3] is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument [4] (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.
Charbel Rouhana (Arabic: شربل روحانا) is a Lebanese oud player. [1] Born in 1965 in Amsheet, a town north of Beirut, Charbel pursued his music education at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, obtaining his diploma in oud instrumentation in 1986 and his M.A. in Musicology in 1987. [2]
Guida is known primarily for teaching the doumbek, [5] however also plays several other instruments professionally: oud, cumbus, riq, bass guitar, guitar and mandolin.He appears on the Beginners Guide To Bellydance [Box set] released by UK label Nascente, [6] and is described by ethnomusicologist Eric Bernard Ederer as a well-known Cumbus player alongside Steve Vai.
Richard Avedis Hagopian (born April 3, 1937) is an Armenian-American oud player and a traditional Armenian musician. [1] Hagopian achieved popularity in the 1960s and 70s as a member of the Kef Time Band, performing kef music, a dance-oriented style of Armenian folk music popular with diaspora communities.
The country's first musical troupe was created in Doha in 1966 by Abdulaziz Nasser Al Obaidan under the name Al Adwaa.One of the band's founding members was Ibrahim Ali, who is considered a pioneer in Qatari music and who specialized in playing the oud. [4]
Hudeidi, who was decended from the Warsangeli tribe of Somalia, was born in Berbera in 1928 and raised in Yemen, where his father was a police sergeant. [2] Hudeidi was always fascinated by music, and fell in love with the oud when his father took him to a party in Aden where an Arab man was playing the instrument.