Thread: Latin infused Middle Eastern Songs

All I've got is Shakira, and thats not even 2% middle eastern LOL. Help!

How about Pero Pom Pero from Dahlia's cd?

I love Jesse Cook - Flamenco guitar and some middle eastern rhythms. Try Baghdad and Nomad

I don't know the artists but Amaya has a CD called "Dancers Odyssey" and some of the songs have some Latin fused into the songs. Also, Alabina and Gipsy Kings have CDs where they have collaborated together and fused Latin with Middle Eastern too.

Yeah Allabina is a good group. Also Amr Diab has a lot of Latin inspired songs. Such as Nour el ain:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7rxBq0C3_8]YouTube - Amr Diab, Habibi ya nour el ain[/ame]

"Latin American Hits for Bellydance" By Hossam Ramzy. Lots of Latin American favorites on that CD with A BIT of arabic flavor.


[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Latin-American-Bellydance-Hossam-Carcamo/dp/B000001II1]Amazon.com: Latin American Hits for Bellydance: Hossam Ramzy & Pablo Carcamo: Music[/ame]

Regards
Priscilla

Also by Hossam Ramzy, there are two Flamenco Arabe albums. I've heard that the second one is not as good as the first, although I haven't heard it. I like the first one.

Yes, Amr Diab seems to like latin rhythms alot. "El Lilady" is about the most latin sounding arabic song I´ve ever heard. VERY cool. It´s on his CD by the same name.

Regards
Priscilla

Originally Posted by norma

Yeah Allabina is a good group. Also Amr Diab has a lot of Latin inspired songs. Such as Nour el ain:
YouTube - Amr Diab, Habibi ya nour el ain

Originally Posted by jessedan

Yes, Amr Diab seems to like latin rhythms alot. "El Lilady" is about the most latin sounding arabic song I´ve ever heard. VERY cool. It´s on his CD by the same name.

"El Lilady" was composed by Amro Mostafa, who has written a lot of Latin-influenced songs for Amro Diab and other singers--for example, "Tool Omri" by Nawal El Zoghbi (long intro on the video before you get to the real song, which starts when the guy yells "Salsa!"):

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fky-_l1mPCc]YouTube - Nawal Al Zoghbi "Tool Omri" Music Video[/ame]

Recently Amro Mostafa has starting performing his own material. Here's the first single from his 2008 album, also very Latin sounding:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMIojb2Vb6E]YouTube - super arabic song "awel ma'oul" by amro mustafa - harika arap muzika[/ame]

Bailia Habibi series has latin flavor bellydance music. I'm not sure if its still in print check with Mher from hollywood music center if still available

Alrana