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Anouar Brahem (in Arabic أنور ابراهم) (born on October 20, 1957) is an oud player and composer. He is widely acclaimed as an innovator in his field. Performing primarily for a jazz audience, he fuses Arab classical music, folk music and jazz and has been recording since at least 1991, after becoming prominent in his own country in the late 1980s. Biography: Brahem was born in Halfaouine in the Medina of Tunis, Tunisia. He studied oud at Tunisia's National Conservatory of Music. In 1981, he left for Paris in search of new vistas. This enabled him to meet musicians from a variety of genres. He remained there as a composer for four years, notably for Tunisian cinema and theatre. He collaborated with Maurice Béjart for his ballet Thalassa Mare Nostrum and with Gabriel Yared as lutist for Costa Gavras' film Hanna K.. After a period back in Tunisia in the late 1980s, when Brahem was appointed director of the Ensemble musical de la ville de Tunis, he toured in the USA and...

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Discography

Barzakh, 1991
Madar, 1994
Le pas du chat noir, 2002
Thimar, 1998
The Astounding Eyes of Rita, 2009
Conte de l'incroyable amour, 1992
Vague, 2003
Le Voyage de Sahar, 2006
Khomsa, 2000

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