Radiodiffusion Internasionaal Annexe

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Hamid El-Sha’eri / حميد الشاعري was born in Benghazi, Libya on November 29th, 1961.

He, like many musicians from Libya, moved to Cairo to start his career. But Hamid took a detour to London along the way. The music scene there introduced him to the synthesizers that were being used in music of the early 1980s – and he took those ideas to Egypt with him and incorporated them into his sound. His first album – Euyunuha / عيونها- was released on SLAM!

SLAM! Records was founded by Hany Sabet in the early 1980s. They were one of the first labels in Cairo to focus on cassette tape releases – which is still a popular format in the Arab World to this day.

Habibi Funk released a compilation of El-Sha’eri’s music from his years on SLAM!.

Catalog number ٩۲/٩۲/٤١٢ on Slam! of Egypt. Released 1983.