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The controversial street music that won't be silenced. The underground genre known as Mahraganat is hugely popular in Egypt – but not with everyone. Adham Youssef explores the controversy. Since...
16 sie 2024 · First, they would keep the genre’s lyrics clean at all times and fully submit to the censorship apparatus. The second was that they would no longer perform with DJs and switch the performances to 100 per cent live, in order to keep other syndicate musicians and instrumentalists employed.
16 sie 2024 · His raw, unique style caught fire online, and with Spotify... | Instagram. 4,393 likes, 51 comments - gqmiddleeast on August 16, 2024: "Hamo Bika’s (@hamo_beka_official) one of Mahraganat’s most streamed artists.
While Mahraganat has been viewed as a new phenomenon, there has been a long-standing history of Shaabi music that pre-dates the genre; from traditional Arabic ‘Mawaweel’ which gave birth to populist musical expression in the region, to the revolutionary duo Sheikh Imam and Ahmed Fouad Negm giving voice to the language of Egyptian streets ...
Mohamed Mahmoud also known as “Hamo Bika” is an Egyptian artist born in Alexandria on the 26th of july 1988. He worked as a butcher, “toktok” driver and a ceramic expert before starting his...
19 mar 2020 · The maligned mahraganat genre of Egypt has taken the lead on naysayers, with the release of Hamo Bika’s first single with Sony Music Middle East – a huge milestone for a genre that has grown out the most disenfranchised communities and into the mainstream and ire of higher powers.
18 lis 2019 · "If you don't acknowledge our music, we will not recognise your art," shouted a famous Mahragan singer Hamo Biko from inside the Egyptian Music Syndicate headquarter, and warned of a "revolution ...
