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Omar Souleyman at The Grammy Museum
Courtesy of The GRAMMY Museum | Posted on July 10, 2014
Where
The Grammy Museum
800 W. Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
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When
Sun, August 3, 2014
8:00 pm
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About
Omar Souleyman, famous for his Shaabi street sound, which he has showcased across the Middle Eastern wedding scene, has recently carried his talents to new realms, bringing his unique style to the West with late night festival slots. The Syrian native from the northeastern region of Jazeera, presents his first studio album entitled Wenu Wenu, produced by Kieran Hebden (Four Tet). At a young age, Souleyman procured an appetite for music, growing up with Syrian folk music played on a long-necked lute called a bozouki and rebab, a single-stringed fiddle. Since then, Souleyman has modernized his native land’s traditional dabke dance music, a foot-stomping circle dance that remains popular throughout the Middle East...