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Hamza El Din
Egypt • 1929-07-10 – 2006-05-22
Hamza El Din is credited on 131 releases across 38 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1964–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
131
Pressings credited
38
Albums
7
Decades active
66
In collections
Biography
Hamza El Din (Arabic حمزة علاء الدين) (July 10, 1929 – May 22, 2006) was an Egyptian Nubian composer, oud player, tar player, and vocalist. He was born in southern Egypt and was an internationally known musician of his native region Nubia, situated on both sides of the Egypt–Sudan border. After musical studies in Cairo, he lived and studied in Italy, Japan and the United States. El Din collaborated with a wide variety of musical performers, including Sandy Bull, the Kronos Quartet and the Grateful Dead.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
131 releases · 38 albums · active 1964–2023
- Performance · 250
- Other credits · 191
- Production · 4
Studios: Iruma Shimin Kaikan · Celestial Sound, San Francisco, CA · Winterland · Echo House
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Kronos Quartet
- Joan Jeanrenaud
- Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings
- Grateful Dead
- The Sufi Choir
- Ahmed Abdul-Malik
- Killing Time (4)
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