{"id":19486,"date":"2019-04-05T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2019\/04\/05\/tamino-channels-voices-from-his-arabic-heritage-into-his-own-eccentric-sound\/"},"modified":"2019-04-05T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T20:27:00","slug":"tamino-channels-voices-from-his-arabic-heritage-into-his-own-eccentric-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/tamino-channels-voices-from-his-arabic-heritage-into-his-own-eccentric-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamino Channels Voices From His Arabic Heritage Into His Own Eccentric Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At 22 years old, Tamino<\/a> possesses a voice that carries the hypnotic, immediate power of something much more ancient. Born Tamino Moharam Fouad and named after a prince in Mozart’s The Magic Flute<\/em>, the Belgian-Egyptian artist explores his heritage by combining his own sound with Arabic influences of his Lebanese and Egyptian ancestors. Tamino’s debut album, Amir, <\/em>out now, <\/em>melds together the artist’s eccentric vocal style with Arab musical theory.<\/p>\n

When Tamino was a kid, he found an old guitar gathering dust in a cupboard while visiting family in Cairo, and brought it back home with him to Belgium. The guitar was once played by Muharram Fouad, Tamino’s grandfather and a famous Egyptian singer who starred in Hassan and Nayima, <\/em>which is, as Tamino tells it, “the Romeo and Juliet of Egyptian cinema.”<\/p>\n

“The songs played in that movie became hits, not only in Egypt but the whole Arabic world, actually,” Tamino says. “He had a very long career until the ’80s, but he died unfortunately when I was 5, so I don’t really have memories of him. I only have his music.”<\/p>\n