Omar Bassam

Omar was born in 1988 for a non musical family he never showed any interest in music until he was 10 when he listened by coincidense to Fairouz and then found an old tape in his family's music library then he decided to learn to play piano at a private institute called Qythara where he was introduced to classical music and old arabic tunes. when he started high school he had to stop going to the institute to concentrate more on his study. but that didn't stop him from self learning and he sta...

Omar was born in 1988 for a non musical family he never showed any interest in music until he was 10 when he listened by coincidense to Fairouz and then found an old tape in his family's music library then he decided to learn to play piano at a private institute called Qythara where he was introduced to classical music and old arabic tunes. when he started high school he had to stop going to the institute to concentrate more on his study. but that didn't stop him from self learning and he started playing other genres as well: jazz, rock , blues,Latin ....and he felt attracted to the world of music production in general. when he first entered the faculty of engineering he found the music room where he began to meet other musicians and began learning about other musical intsruments. then he won the 1st prize in Ain Shams University's contest in classical music for 4 years in a row.