Omar Khairat to perform in Uptown Cairo

CAIRO – 7 November 2017: The veteran Egyptian musician Omar Khairat will perform a concert in Uptown Cairo on Friday, November 10 at 9 p.m.The tickets' prices are LE 1,750 ($99.17), 1,200, 900, 600.

Khairat is a composer and a pianist. He was born in Alexandria and raised in a family of musicians. He began his career in 1959 as a pianist.

Khairat was a member of the Egyptian band Les Petits Chats, which was founded in 1967 and used to sing Italian, French, and English songs. The band was immensely popular in the late 1960s and the early 1970s.

Khairat is influenced by different genres of music such as Arabic, European classical, Egyptian, African, jazz, pop, and blues. Among the many awards he has received is the Best Musician award in 1989 by the Egyptian Society for Cinema.

Khairat is a composer, conductor and pianist that can creatively blend the style of international symphonies with Egyptian music in the best way possible. He has composed many successful music pieces such as “Dameer Abla Hikmat” (Abla Hikmat’s Conscience), “Wagh Elkamar” (The Moon's Face) and “Leilet el-Kabd ala Fatma” (The Night Fatma was Arrested), among others. Khairat will participate in the 26th Arab Music Festival running from November 1 to 15.