No ordinary wedding singer
Omar Souleyman’s 2019 release Shlon is short, but oh so sweet
published : 2 Mar 2021 at 04:00
In 2016, World Beat featured an album, Bahdeni Nami (MonkeyTown Records, Germany), by the prolific Syrian wedding singer Omar Souleyman.
The singer, who was forced by the tragic recent history of Syria to relocate to Turkey in 2011, has more than 500 live cassettes and CDs, legal and bootleg, to his name.
Souleyman rose to international prominence following the release of a compilation of his early hits in 2007. His music is rooted in the hand-clap driven folk music known as dabke; the music is both ancient and modern as it features…
