About mohamed mounir biography
- Mohamed Mounir (Arabic: محمد منير; born October 10, 1954) is an.
- Mohamed Mounir is an Egyptian singer and actor, with a musical career spanning more than four decades.
- Mounir was born in Aswan, and came to Cairo with his family after the immigration of Nubian people during the High Dam construction.
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Egypt’s Mohamed Mounir: The king for over four decades
CAIRO - 10 October 2021: Today marks the birthday of iconic Egyptian singer Mohamed Mounir.
For Egyptians Mounir is not just a legendary singer but he is the melodious Nubian voice that they were grew up hearing it and strongly attached to.
Mounir was born in Aswan, and came to Cairo with his family after the immigration of Nubian people during the High Dam construction.
He graduated from the photography, cinema and TV department, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, and he started his musical career in the late 1970s.
He started his career by singing with his brother Fouad, who supported Mounir throughout his journey.
Mounir’s had his real debut when he met prominent Egyptian poet Abdel Reheem Mansour and Nubian musician and singer Ahmed Mounib.
The meeting heralded cooperation between international jazz legend Yehia Khalil, Mounir, Mansour and Mounib, who changed the shape of Egyptian music and constructed an influential chapter in Arabic music history.&nbs
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Afropop Worldwide
Mohamed Mounir is among Egypt’s pre-eminent living popular singers. Since his arrival on the scene in the late 70s, Mounir has built a reputation for singing songs voicing the deepest aspirations of the Egyptian people. No mere purveyor of love songs, Mounir has worked with some of the great poets, composers, producers and musicians of his time to craft a canon of enduring songs. In July, 2011, six months after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Banning Eyre and Sean Barlow visited Mounir at his home in downtown Cairo. Eyre had seen and photographed a concert Mounir gave with his band on the Mediterranean North Coast near Alexandria a few days earlier. Mounir’s assistant Lobna Gareeb served as interpreter for the interview, and added a few thoughts of her own. This is a transcript of the free flowing conversation that unfolded that summer night in Cairo. Thanks to Nehal Elmeligy for additional help with translation.
Note: This conversation took place in July, 2011, months before any post-revolution voting had taken
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