Ali El Haggar to stage El Sawy Culture Wheel in August

CAIRO – 22 July 2017: Renowned Egyptian singer Ali El Haggar will be staging Hekma Hall in El Sawy Culture Wheel on August 5 with some of the renowned musician and choral.

The concert will include Ahmed Bedeir on drums, Wael El Feshny on Tambourine, Hany El Nahal on percussion, Ahmed El Haggar and Ahmed Raoud on keyboard, Teka and Sobhy and Tarek on brass, Abduallah Helmy on Ney, Maged Askar on Kanoun, Ahmed Anwar on bass guitar, and Haytham Tawfik, Karam Mokhtar, Ahmed El Beheiry, and Sameh Eissa as part of choral.

El Haggar graduated the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1979 and was influenced by late Arabic music legend Baligh Hamdy who trained El Haggar along with Mohamed Mounir and Mohamed El Helw in a band called El Takht that was formed in the Arabic Music Institution, according to the event’s official Facbook page.

Inspired by poet, cartoonist and painter Salah Jaheen, El Haggar always wanted to sing the late artist’s sonnets and after performing them grew in popularity during the 1980’s, where he also began blending authentic Arabic music with new technologies and sound effects that were merging at the time.

El Haggar has also participated in several theatrical plays, movies, and TV shows parallel to maintaining a line of album production.