Magdy Al Husseni

Magdy Al Husseni

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An Egyptian keyboard player of Kurdish origins. He was born in 1942, and began his journey since his childhood by participating in the "Children's Paradise" program. He joined...Read more Abdel Halim Hafez's band and remained a member until the death of Abdel Halim in 1977. He also played music in the Umm Kulthum band by the help of Riadh El Sunbati when he was not more than sixteen years old, and also with Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Farid al-Atrash. He founded the Toast Show band, and competed with Abdel Wahab and Baligh Hamdi in the use of Western instruments and how to adapt them into melodies. In 1975, he co-starred in the movie My Love Is Very Crazy. Magdy El Hossainy is considered one of the ten fastest musicians in the world, according to the Guinness World Records.