Mohamed Mounir
Mohamed Mounir (Arabic: محمد منير Muhammad Munir, born October 10, 1954 in Aswan ) is an Egyptian musician, who combines the Arabic and partly Sufi music with elements of pop and rock.
Life
Born and raised in Aswan, Mounir went to Cairo in 1971, to study film and photography. After his military service, he turned to music, and was within a few years the idol especially the left-wing students.
This Mounir broke first with traditions when he dressed the west and in the manner of a pop star appeared before his audience. Also, no typical Arab orchestra sat in the background, but an up to 12 -strong band with Western and Arabic instruments.
Mounir lives in the district Kairorer Garden City.
Music
The reason for its success is the combination of traditional Sufi music of his homeland, the Nubian embossed Upper Egypt, with elements of rock, pop and funk. This way, he became the founder of the Egyptian pop music. His love songs and ballads quickly made him socially acceptable, so that his music is often played today at parties and weddings.
The popularity among progressive students is due to the introduction of protest songs, songs so, where he is pursuing his, partly massive criticism of society, politics and religion.
After the attacks on New York, he fell on his video clip maddad in which he critically examined the influence on the image of Islam through mosques and mass media. This meant that this clip was boycotted by most Arab broadcasters. This song was arranged for him by the German musician Roman Bunka. Bunka arranged for him from 1984 songs over and over again, as a guitarist and oud player, he accompanied him in concerts and in the studio.
His notoriety helped him launch his career as an actor. With the " enfant terrible " of the Egyptian film, Youssef Chahine, he made several films, including the nominated for the Palme d'Or film Fate.
Through contacts with Western musicians Mohamed Mounir always comes back to concerts in Europe. In 2003, he was with Hubert von Goisern on tour, as well as in Germany.
Mounir sang in 2009 on the new album of I I together with Adel Tawil entitled " Yasmine ". The title was also the contribution from Berlin to the Federal Vision Song Contest 2010, which took place on October 1, 2010 and in which he I finished in third place with 100 points, along with I.