Maryam Saleh

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Maryam Saleh ( Arabic مريم صالح, DMG Maryam Ṣāliḥ ; * 1985 or 1986 ), with full name Maryam Saleh Saad (مريم صالح سعد, DMG Maryam Ṣāliḥ Saʾd ) is an Egyptian singer and songwriter (including psychedelic rock , trip-hop ) and actress .

Life

Her father was the playwright, theater director and critic Saleh Saad , with whom she worked as an actress and assistant director from a young age. He was killed in a fire in Bani Suwaif in 2005 . Her father's friends included Sheikh Imam , who was a great influence on her.

As an actress, she starred in plays such as Laila Soliman's Lessons in Revolution , a few short films and Ibrahim El-Batout's film A Shams (2008), for which she also sang the theme song.

Around 2008 she founded her band Jawaz Safar (جواز سفر Dchawāz safar 'passport'), in which only the instruments oud and tabl were played. In 2008 she founded the band Baraka (بركة'Blessing'), which u. a. the Sheikh Imam songs "Nixon Baba", "Valery Giscard d'Estaing", "Ya Wad Ya Yu Yu" (يا واد يا يويو, yā wādd yā yū yū ) and “El-Bahr Byidhak Leh” ('Why the sea laughs') and for which her sister Nagham Saleh later sang.

Since 2010 she has been working with the Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan ; the music has been described as an Arab trip-hop .

In the Egyptian short film A Tin Tale (حدوتة من صاج, Hadouta Men Sag ; Director: Aida El Kashef ), which was shown at the 2011 Dubai International Film Festival, Maryam Saleh played the lead role of the prostitute Mona Farkha. In the Egyptian film comedy Aelat Miki (2011, director: Akram Fareed) she played the role of Umm Ali.

On May 1, 2012, their debut album was released on the Arab independent label Eka3. In September 2015 she released her second album together with Zeid Hamdan on Mostakell (an imprint of Eka3).

Publications

  • with Shift-Z (Zeid Hamdan): Watan el Ak (EP, 2011)
  • Mesh Baghanny (مش بغني; Album on Eka3, 2012)
  • Toul El Taree ' (طول الطريق; Single on Mostakell, 2013)
  • Ashekatal Wardi (عاشقة الورد; Single on Mostakell, 2015)
  • with Zeid Hamdan: Halawella (حلاويلا; Album on Mostakell, 2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ahmad Zaatari: " Maryam Saleh: Rocking Sheikh Imam's Revolutionary Songs ", Al-Akhbar English December 27, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b Fayrouz Karawya: " Bands to Watch: Maryam Saleh ," Egypt Independent , August 11, 2011th
  3. ^ A b c Chitra Kalyani: " Maryam, Maryam, quite contrary ", Daily News Egypt , October 2, 2011.
  4. ^ Rowan El Shimi: " Cairo to host underground musicians Zeid and Maryam, " Ahram Online , June 6, 2012.
  5. ↑ http://dubaifilmfest.com/en/films/detail/a-tin-tale/2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / dubaifilmfest.com  
  6. ↑ Thoraia Abou Bakr: " Female directors celebrated at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute ", Daily News Egypt , February 19, 2013.
  7. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821321/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm#cast
  8. ↑ On Eka3 see Khyam Allami: "Dispatches from a new generation - The independent music scene in the Middle East", in: Jo Glanville (ed.): Smashed Hits 2.0: Music Under Pressure (= Index on Censorship, Volume 39, Number 3, 2010), SAGE Publications , pp. 84ff.
  9. ↑ Eihab Boraie: " Maryam Saleh: A Musical Nebula " CairoScene , September 7, 2015.
  10. ^ Neil van der Linden, " Album review: Halawella is an impressive collection of sharp beats and humor, " The National , October 1, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Saleh, Maryam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES مريم صالح (Arabic); Ṣāliḥ, Maryam (DMG romanization); Saad, Maryam Saleh (full name); مريم صالح سعد (full Arabic name); Saʾd, Maryam Ṣāliḥ (DMG transcription of the full name); Saleh, Mariam (variant)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian singer, songwriter and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1985 or 1986