Hany Shaker (, ; born December 21, 1952) is an
Egyptian singer,
actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
and
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and def ...
. His first public appearance was when he sang with
Abd El Halim Hafez Choral Group in "Sora", then he played the young
Sayed Darwish in the movie ''
Sayed Darwish''.
Biography
Hany Shaker began his musical career at a very early agelearning the piano as a child, when his mother took on the role of agent as well as supervisor of his professional training. After graduation from high school in the early 1970s he studied music at the prestigious
Cairo Conservatoire.
Hany scored his first breakthrough hit in his second year of college in December 1972 with a song written by Mohammed El Mougi, "Heloua ya Dounia" (It's a Wonderful Life), which set him off on his musical career. Although at that time the biggest legends remained at their peak
Umm Kulthum
Umm Kulthum (; 31 December 1898 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptians, Egyptian singer and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title (). Immensely popular throughout the Middle East and beyond, Umm Kul ...
,
Farid al-Atrash,
Mohammed Abdel Wahab and
Abdel Halim Hafezthey recognized his potential and supported him, so that he was able to become known among all these legends. Until today Hany claims he owes his greatest musical debt to Abdel Halim Hafez, a man who continues to exert a huge influence on younger Egyptian and Arab musicians even after his death in 1977.
In 1974, Hany was invited to participate in a concert in Lebanon, which turned out to be a huge success. Since then, Hany has remained extremely popular among the Lebanese.
From then on Hany produced a number of his early hits: "Siboni Aheb" (Let me love), "Kisma w’nasib" (Destiny and fate) and one of his most popular "Kida Bardo Ya Amar" (It's not fair, oh Moon"). During the 1970s Hany presented two famous plays, "Cinderella" and "Egypt", and three romantic movies: ''When love sings'', ''We live for love'' and ''I love this and want that''.
In the course of his long and successful career, Shaker has proved he is not only a talented singer but also a songwriter of his own material, including the whole ''Albi Maloh'' album, which included eight hits in the early 1990s, and songs such as "Ma’ak" and "Katabetli essenin", as well as working with a number of legendary composers including Salah El Sharnoubi, Tarik Akif, Yehia El Mougi, Mohamed Sultan,
Baligh Hamdi, Mohamed Elmogi, khaled Elamir,
Mounir Mourad, Elias El Rahbani, Ammar Elshereei, Mohamed Diaa Eldeen, Sami Elhefnawi, Hassan Abo Elsuood and Ahmed Shata.
In spite of his love of traditional
Egyptian music, Hany also enjoys modern songs which reflect contemporary society. He considers his own musical style a halfway point between tradition and modernity. In the late eighties and the nineties he started to act through his video clips, including Lao Ya’ni, Nesyanak Sa’b, Mat Hadidish, Albi Maloh and many others.
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1952 births
20th-century Egyptian male singers
Living people
Singers who perform in Egyptian Arabic
Arabic-language singers of Egypt