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Country : Egypt

Biography

City band Coming from the prospective of : Music is what’s left in our lives, City began...a band that was formed because when words fail music speaks.

5 years ago it was a coincidence when Wael Amer, current vocal of The City, met with Ahmed Mostafa, lead guitarist of the city- in one of the studios and started tossing around ideas on how to form a band and really mix western blues with Arabic " tawashe7" for example, although it was not easy to create such musical genre, specially that none of them academically studied music they were able to send that musical influence through to people. City sings about all walks of life, focusing on the Egyptian society in their lyrics as they truly would like to send an inspiring message for a change, as they always thought to have the gift of music is like having an unusual power, and u are responsible to use it for sending a true message to your fans and people, and knowing their Egyptians fans very well, groove is guaranteed when u hear them play...weather its a rock n roll song or a Daraboka style song ..they all share meaningful lyrics.

but what makes the lyrics so special is that a normal Egyptian would get the jest so would a sophisticated one Each of The members adds his own influence into the kind of music they play. Ahmed Moustafa with his rockfish solos and energetic bluesy guitar style, Wael Amer with his unmistakable Arabic high pitch notes and his quarter tone '3orab' . City Band works with a lot of different song writers, like Waleed AbdelMoun'em, Basim Lasheen, Montaser Higazy, and mostly Bahaa ElDin Mohammed who is one of Egypt’s most sophisticated song writers nowadays.

City Band’s: Music of the City, get touched by the music, inspired by the lyrics, dance to the groove and most of all, have lots of guaranteed fun

Wael Amer: Despite his young age, wael masters a very hard techniqe, the high pitched mawal and tawashee7 that only few singers can perform it. yet that doesnt stop him from singing most of cityband's songs with his angel like voice. Wael won variouse musical competitions, and he has a record deal already but he always puts that behind for the sake of underground music

Faisal Foad: Mr Jazz, that’s what they call him in the band, his passion for jazz in unlimited and un stoppable ! Feisal played the piano since a very young age, and he arranges most of the harmony for the City and he has his own jazz project called the hot potatoes

Hassan Abo Ali: Bands drummer and a very influence member, he is city band's Goalie . Playing the drums since a young age ..he also has a passion for singing that comes out in a couple of City's songs

Zatona: percussion player and band's most experienced member, as he played b4 with lots of bands back in the early 90's now he only concentrates with city band having more faith in this special project day by day

Seeka: Bass player and band's newest member , playing with a lot of other bands as well seek completes the picture with his very young and fresh talent on bass, he also plays percussion on the side

Badr Mostafa : Violin player...playing the violin since as long as he can remember, influenced by the band BOND, Badr's very special solos comes to the aid of most of the bands songs, putting a soft flavor to it yet a very noticeable one.

Ahmed Mostafa: the young and inspiring song writer and guitar player and occasional singer, Ahmed's talent is shining on every stage city takes with his beat box and Luis Armstrong singing style, Ahmed wrote some of the bands lyrics and composed some of the songs, influenced by John Mayer, Bob Dylan in his compositions, Joe Satriani and Eric Clapton in his bluesy energetic Solos, painting the picture of City Band he always says that if he wants to rock he would only rock but in Arabic, as he never wanted to play covers or do rock in English language concentrating his work only on City.

Former Band Members: Tamer Yousri: percussion

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