Phil Thornton is now closely associated with the British New Age music movement but he is also an accomplished guitarist and has had a long touring and recording association with Sinead OConnor He is a regular member of the neo-psychedelic English ba…

Mohamed Mourad Migally (b. 5 October 1955, Luxor, Egypt; rababah, suffara, vocals), Metqal Qinawi Metqal (b. 9 November 1926, Kena, Egypt; vocals, rababah), Hanafi Ali Ibrahim (b. 19 May 1952, Kena, Egypt; tablah), Mustafa Abdelazez Mohamed Amer (b. …

b. 1933, Gotha, Egypt, 25 June 2001, Cairo, Egypt. Born in a small village near Aswan, in the heart of Nubia, Kuban began his musical career whilst still a small child singing on the boats that went across the Nile, from Aswan to Sudan. At the age of…

Egyptian native Hossam Ramzy is the leader and chief percussionist of Pharaohs Egyptian Ensemble best known to Western listeners as the backing group featured on Robert Plant and Jimmy Pages No Quarter tour and album Ramzy began playing the darabouka…

Born in 1955 Mahmoud Fadl began his musical career not playing but as a limbo dancer in Egypt at wedding celebrations -- both Egyptian and Nubian -- the culture that was his but which had been lost as families were evacuated for the building of dams …

The vocal group Anonymous 4 formed in 1986 originally comprising Johanna Maria Rose Susan Hellauer Ruth Cunningham and Marsha Genensky So named in honor of the designation given by musicologists to the unknown 13th-century Parisian student whose writ…

Since collaborating with Peter Gabriel in the 1980s, Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour has become familiar to audiences around the world. With his complex, topical music, N'Dour is the primary exponent of the mbalax sound, which combines traditional W…

b. 20 March 1964, Brussels, Belgium. The daughter of an English mother and a part-Jewish part-Muslim father of Moroccan/Egyptian origins, Atlas spent her early childhood in the Moroccan district of Brussels. When her parents divorced she moved to Nor…

One of rock's longest-running acts, the Moody Blues began as a mid-1960s British R&B band … la the Rolling Stones, turning to psychedelic pop later in the decade. In the '70s, they evolved into purveyors of melodic, classically influenced songs that …

Of all the jam bands to emerge in the late-1980s and early-'90s, Phish were widely regarded as the inheritors to the Grateful Dead's throne. While the group's jazzy, mercurial sound was more progressive and light-hearted than the Dead's, Phish's mass…