Hakim…Bahaa’ Sultan….Hamada Helal…Shaaban Abdel Reheem…Deyab and a lot lot lot more!!!

There’s a huge number of Shaabi singers on the scene now that we have in Egypt. Each one of those guys comes with his own style, own look, own voice and own songs BUT they will all agree that their music has ONE Godfather…That is the ultimate genius, Ahmed Adaweya, or commonly known as Adaweya.

You see, Egyptian Shaabi music is basically a type of music which is linked to people of the street, real Egyptians, ones who know the culture and the basis and roots of their country to the bone…and Adaweya was JUST that. He sang about things that he felt (the crowded atmospheres in Cairo in his song Zahma) and things that we all lived and talked about (simply visiting and praying for a neighbour in his hit Salametha Um Hassan)….He was the ultimate pure Egyptian dude and that came across truly in his songs.

They once asked the legendary music composer Mohamed Abdel Wahab:

What worries you about Egyptian music? He said: Adaweya…

They then asked, who’s your favorite artist at the moment? He said: Adaweya…

As we are talking about him today, enjoy this beautiful hit of his…

Mawal “Rahu El Habaib” followed by the 80’s smash “Ya Bent El Sultan”

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