Adding more music to my world music playlist. This time the song is coming from O&E from Turkey. Let’s listen to Beirout from Ibrahim Maalouf. By the way, you can also add your song of by CLICKING HERE. Let’s get to know more world music…
So who is Ibrahim Maalouf…
Ibrahim Maalouf (born 5 December 1980) is a French-Lebanese trumpet player and teacher, composer and arranger. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and now lives in Paris, France.
Maalouf was born into a Lebanese family of intellectuals and artists; he is the son of trumpeter Nassim Maalouf and pianist Nada Maalouf, nephew of the writer Amin Maalouf and grandson of journalist, poet and musicologist Rushdi Maalouf. He is noted for playing Arabic music with quarter tones on the trumpet, which is a rare skill, pioneered by his father and Don Ellis in the 1960s.
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