Riad El Sonbati

Riad El Sonbati

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Riad El Sunbati is an Egyptian music composer who was born in the city of Faraskour, Damietta. He did not excel in studies at a young age, and he was passionate about music and...Read more singing from a very early age. Sheikh Sayed Darwish listened to Riad and admired him greatly and wanted to take him to Alexandria to give him better opportunities, but his father refused that offer because he relied heavily on him in his band. He made his decision to enter the world of composing, and that was in the early thirties of the last century. By the mid-thirties, he got acquainted with Umm Kulthum, to begin an Arabic musical partnership considered to be the best that ever occurred.