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After teasing the song on TikTok, Nasser finally performs the unreleased track live while opening for Tul8te at Al Manara Arena as part of Tul8te’s world tour. 🎥 @waraelmazzika
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Belgian techno queen Charlotte de Witte closes out day two of Starlight Festival against the backdrop of the pyramids. Live from Day 2 of @exitfestival and @plus_vls's first collaboration @starlight.festival. 🎥 @waraelmazzika
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From day one of the inaugural edition of Straight Festival, Egyptian based producer and DJ ThatGirl SherryK takes over the Orion Stage with an unreleased flip of the patriotic classic ‘Helwa Ya Baladi’ at the backdrop of the pyramids. 🎥 @waraelmazzika
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Live from @exitfestival and @plus_vls’s first collaboration at @starlight.festival, where Charlie Sparks waves the Egyptian flag against the backdrop of the Pyramids while dropping a hard trance remix of Linkin Park’s classic ‘Numb’. 🎥 @waraelmazzika
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At YouTube’s exclusive “Big Artists, Small Room” event, held in collaboration with Takwene at Cairo Jazz Club 610, we caught up with Lege-Cy to talk about performing in a smaller venue and the first live performance of his newly released track ‘Amara’. For Lege-Cy, that meant performing in front of a crowd that felt more like his own circle, with many of the people in the room already familiar to him. Rather than making direct eye contact with the crowd, Lege-Cy says he usually looks towards the end of the room while performing. The performance also marked the first time he performed “Amara” live, just days after its release. Lege-Cy spoke about the medley performed during the night, a format he has always enjoyed and wanted to create himself. Bringing together verses from different songs, the medley draws from a tradition already familiar in Egyptian music, with artists like Amr Diab and Tamer Ashour having used the format in their performances. Watch the full interview on WaraElMazzika.com (link in bio). قدّم ليجيسي عرضًا خاصًا ضمن ‘Big Artist, Small Venue’ من YouTube Music، في أجواء حميمة جمعته بأصدقائه وجمهوره على مسافة أقرب من المعتاد، ما أضفى على الحفلة مساحة مختلفة من التفاعل والحضور. بعد الحفلة، التقينا ليجيسي للحديث عن تجربته في الأداء أمام جمهور قريب منه، وتأثير وجود أصدقائه بين الحضور على هذه التجربة، إلى جانب تقديمه أغنيته الجديدة ‘امارة’ للمرة الأولى. وتحدث ليجيسي أيضًا عن اختياره تقديم مجموعة من أغانيه بأسلوب الـMedley، وكيف أتاحت له هذه التجربة إعادة تقديم أعماله بصورة مختلفة ضمن مساحة صغيرة وقريبة من الجمهور اقرأ المقالة كامله على WaraElMazzika.com ( الرابط في البايو) 🎥 @waraelmazzika
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We caught up with Nayer Nagui ahead of his first show with Hisham Kharma, to talk about translating electronic compositions for an orchestra, revisiting earlier work, and what can happen when two musicians step into each other’s worlds. Watch the full interview on WaraElMazzika.com (link in bio). 🎥 @WaraElMazzika
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Live from @YouTubeArabia’s exclusive event “Big Artist, Small Venue” taking place at Cairo Jazz Club 610, where Lege-Cy gave an intimate performance of fan-favorite track ‘Wala Meen’ featuring Zaid Zaza. 🎥 @waraelmazzika
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Live from @YouTubeArabia’s exclusive event “Big Artist, Small Venue”, where Lege-Cy performed his newly released track ‘Amara’ for the very first time at Cairo Jazz Club 610. 🎥 @waraelmazzika
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28 years ago, September 26, 1998, Cheb Khaled, Rachid Taha, and Faudel came together at Paris’s Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy for 1, 2, 3 Soleil, a landmark concert celebrating Raï and its place in Algerian musical culture. Bringing three generations of artists onto one stage, the performance paired Khaled and Taha’s established careers with Faudel’s emergence as one of the genre’s next major voices. More than a meeting of three celebrated names, it captured a moment when Algerian music and the diaspora’s cultural presence in France were becoming increasingly visible. Khaled had recently reached a new level of international recognition with ‘Aïcha’, while Taha’s version of ‘Ya Rayah’ had become one of his defining recordings. Faudel, meanwhile, represented a younger generation carrying Raï forward. The timing added another layer: taking place in the year France hosted and won the FIFA World Cup, the concert unfolded amid heightened visibility for the country’s multicultural identity and its North African communities. منذ 28 عامًا، في 26 سبتمبر 1998، اجتمع الشاب خالد، ورشيد طه، وفضيل في قصر أومني سبور دو باريس-بيرسي في باريس، في حفل ‘1، 2، 3 سولاي’، وهو حفل موسيقي بارز احتفى بموسيقى الراي ومكانتها في الثقافة الموسيقية الجزائرية. جمع الحفل ثلاثة أجيال من الفنانين على مسرح واحد، بين المسيرة الراسخة لخالد وطه وصعود فضيل كواحد من أبرز الأصوات الجديدة في هذا النوع الموسيقي. أكثر من مجرد لقاء بين ثلاثة أسماء بارزة، وثّق الحفل لحظة كانت فيها الموسيقى الجزائرية والحضور الثقافي للجالية الجزائرية في فرنسا يكتسبان حضورًا متزايدًا. كان الشاب خالد قد وصل قبلها إلى مستوى جديد من العالمية مع اغنية ‘عائشة’، بينما أصبحت نسخة طه من ‘يا رايح’ واحدة من أبرز تسجيلاته. وفي الوقت نفسه، مثّل فضيل جيلًا أصغر يحمل موسيقى الراي إلى مستوى جديد . وأضاف توقيت الحفل طبقة أخرى على القصة ؛ إذ أقيم في العام الذي استضافت فيه فرنسا كأس العالم لكرة القدم وفازت بها، ليأتي الحفل وسط حضور متعدد للهوية متعددة الثقافات في فرنسا وللجاليات القادمة من شمال أفريقيا. 🎥 @waraelmazzika
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Egyptian composer and producer Hisham Kharma and maestro Nayer Nagui are bringing their work together onstage for the first time, the two concerts took place at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on September 11 and the Cairo Opera House’s Grand Theater on September 18, with Nagui leading the orchestra. We caught up with Kharma and Nagui ahead of their show, to talk about translating electronic compositions for an orchestra, revisiting earlier work, and what can happen when two musicians step into each other’s worlds. 🎥 @waraelmazzika
Features
Lege-Cy: On Performing in intimate settings
At YouTube’s exclusive “Big Artists, Small Room” event, held in collaboration with Taqweene at Cairo Jazz Club 610, we caught up with Lege-Cy to talk about…
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Playlist of the month
The sounds of Lebanese Resistance 🇱🇧
Eighteen songs, an hour and a half of them: Fairuz, Marcel Khalife, Julia Boutros, Ziad Rahbani, Sabah and Zaki Nassif, on the records Lebanon has reached for in every decade it has had to survive.
Open the playlistReleases
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Fawzi & Al Nather Address Systemic Barriers Faced by Palestinian Artists on ‘VISA’
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Mocro Stars Sample Mohamed Assaf’s Patriotic Anthem in ‘Dima Falestini’
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Ali Najm & 26 Revisit the 1950s Iraqi Classic ‘Alojen’
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Mousv Captures the Everyday Struggle of Getting By in ‘Kol Youm’
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Lella Fadda Finds Freedom in Apathy on EP ‘Lolly Pop’