(Sounds True) Time was when a new record by a Nubian oud player would be fortunate to be released in the US, much less find air time on college radio stations. Not so anymore: Sounds True Records has ...

Hamza El Din is considered the father of modern Nubian music. He was born in Toshka, Nubia, Egypt. Hamza studied at King Fouad University (now the University of Cairo), then enrolled in the Popular ...

Hamza El Din, considered the father of Nubian music who helped expose the sounds of his North African homeland to a worldwide audience, has died. He was 76. El Din died May 22 at a hospital in ...

Hamza El Din, the celebrated Nubian musician whose rich fusion of Arabic and Nubian sounds entranced audiences worldwide and inspired colleagues like the Grateful Dead and Kronos Quartet, died Monday ...

Although they come from disparate musical worlds, cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, from Western classical tradition, and oud player Hamza El Din, from Egyptian-Nubian roots, have crossed paths on many ...

Previously released in 1971 as analog disc (H-72041). Recorded by Daniel C. Grinstead. Compact disc. Program notes by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea ([4] p.) inserted in container. Hamza El Din, voice and ...

Recently reissued as part of the wonderful Nonesuch Explorer series, 1971’s Escalay (The Water Wheel) is the classic album of Hamza El Din’s lengthy catalog, the sound of his native Nubia, a region ...

Two distinctive and influential musicians passed away this week: Jamaican ska pioneer Desmond Dekker and Egyptian musician Hamza el Din. Dekker's 1969 hit "The Israelites" helped introduce Jamaica's ...

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