Egyptian/Belly dance music!

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  1. saturnine11 said:

    Talking Egyptian/Belly dance music!

    I need help identifying a song for belly dancing! I believe it is an Egyptian song, but I'm not 100% sure unfortunately. It's a very upbeat, fast and fun song with male vocals. It doesn't exactly sound like a typical belly dance song as it's untraditional and a little more 'fun' sounding, but still has the same type of back beat that belly dancing music has.

    I know that there is pretty much constant singing throughout the song, but every so often the singer (or singers, there might be multiple) seems to 'shout' a few words. Seeing as it's not English I can only phonetically describe what the words sound like which is something along the lines of "gusta hool" or "gusta lool" or something to that effect. Ugh, I'm useless!

    Anyway, the dance that it's being played along side with has been described as a "street type" of belly dancing - as in not as formal and proper as regular belly dance, perhaps this helps.

    I know this is super vague and a horrible description, but I'm desperate to figure out what this song is!

    Thanks so much!
     
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    Tahira said:

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    .... mhh...???
    Are you talking abouth Shaabi music? Did you try then Hakim or Reco.

    Or do you have a youtube-sample whick comes close to the music you are looking for?
     
  3. saturnine11 said:

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    The closest I have found so far is this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQi10a_ecoQ

    Thank you for telling me what this style is called though, I had no idea!

    *EDIT* It sounds ridiculously close to the above song, which I found out is "Leila Elwa" by Ahmed El Essawy. It sounds sooo close, but it's not it!

    It also sounds similar to songs by Omda.
    Last edited by saturnine11; 01-21-2010 at 12:37 AM.