Port Said Music Of The Middle East

Lebanese tenor, lute player and conductor Mohammed El-Bakkar became a star in Egypt, where he appeared in several Arabic-language films. In 1952 he moved to the United States, where he played a singing oriental rug salesman in the Broadway play Fanny. Port Said was his first LP, a magnificent piece of world music whose oriental flavors will make the perfect soundtrack to your belly dancing evenings. Six more volumes followed in his Music Of The Middle East series, which brought the Middle Eastern musical tradition to the United States, one of the first long-playing records to do so, sparking a frenzy for what has become the world music genre.