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Om Kolthoum can change your life (I´ll show you how)

 

Om Kolthoum can change your life. 

I know this is an ambitious claim but, I assure you, we can fulfill it.

As usual, I write/dance/teach from experience. The theory isn´t enough - it never was. I have to live in order to tell. 

And I´ve been living it - this long-time love affair with the music of Om Kolthoum and its side effects.

Most Oriental dancers, from every level, associate the music of Om Kolthoum to a distant, out of reach, sophisticated world but my story...

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How I fell in love with Om Kolthoum (a very personal story by Joana Saahirah)

Let me tell you a secret: I didn´t start loving Om Kolthoum. In fact, for years, I didn´t get what all the fuss was about. 

My first contact with Egyptian music happened through Hossam Ramzy, pop and shaabi music I found in the markets during my first study trips to Egypt, the easy on western ears kind of stuff. 

 

 

Om Kolthoum was an icon, an untouchable name that popped on my horizon as a mandatory field of study, a...

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