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Biography

The Egyptian Singer Tony Kaldas طونى قلدس and his Band are mostly performing songs from the rich Arabic repertoire in live performances at different venues (Cairo Opera House, Sawy Culturewheel, Cairo Jazz Club, Bibliotheca Alexandrina,etc.. ), performing tonykaldas-face2songs for Fairuz & Rahbani’s work, Sayed Darwish, Abd El halim, Abdel wahab, Asmahan, Dalida and others in a different modern interpretation working on merging oriental music with various styles like Latin, jazz, blues, pop and rock by adding to the old composition a new life with unique arrangement and fresh live performance.

Having the same passion for fusion in music, Tony works and performs his originals on stage among the cover songs, in 2008 he composed two songs written by the latest international Lebanese poet and writer Gibran Khalil Gibran for the first time in Jazz and Oriental Latin, and in 2010 one song from the latest big Egyptian poet Salah jaheen in Classical style which is a new approach to any Jaheen’s text.

In the end of 2010, he released his new song, the most famous Mexican song worldwide Besame mucho written for the first time in Arabic and re-arranged in oriental bossa nova style and it is playing in the Egyptian radio Mega FM 92.7 and expected to shoot it on 2011 as a video clip, aiming to celebrate 70 years on the creation of the song.

Tony works on other originals in Arabic language for the time being with the main issue to mix Oriental music with Jazz, blues, Latin, rock and other style.

Tony has a unique ability to sing in different accents and languages as well, as he can perform in more than 7 languages and accents. And he covered many songs for Edith Piaf, Giannis Parios, Charles Aznavour, Nat king cole, Ella Fitzgerad, Nana Mouskouri and others.

Birthday: 20th of January 1984, Cairo, Egypt.

From Egyptian father and Greek mother, Tony was born in an exceptional mix of cultural expression manifested in many different ways artistically. Kaldas is an Egyptian family from Sohag in the Upper Egypt area. Even though, Tony didn’t visit Sohag in his childhood, but he is very proud that his father’s root is completely Egyptian because he is always proud of the Egyptian civilization and believes that it is one of the most important one in our human history.

Tony studied at the French School (Collège des Frères) in Cairo, then graduating with BA in Architectural Engineering at Cairo Academy College. In the mean time, he studied music and opera singing with the Soprano Dr.Taheya Shams el din starting from 2003 to 2006 at the Opera house continued by the Soprano Dr.Iman Mustafa from 2006 to 2009. He played Violin for 2 years during his adolescence and after that he motivated to play Guitar and participated in many religious choirs from age 15 followed by singing for 3 years of being a member in the tenor voice in Cairo Celebration Choir at The Opera House conducted by the Egyptian Maestro/ Nayer Nagui from 2001 to 2003.

Tony’s singing ability surprised many people surrounding him, starting from his family, when he decided to sing solo in his Sixteen’s in French language. As he wasn’t interested in singing before that time, but he had the artistic tendency to show up by imitating artists and acting after watching every single movie since he was 4 years old.

According to what he is always saying, Tony sees the time before sixteen was a preparation time and actually a great opportunity for ear training to be manifested later than in singing.

He got an exceptional outstanding gift of interpreting different styles of music by his voice like Jazz, Classic, Oriental, Pop, Funk, Blues and other various styles

And in different languages as well like English, Arabic, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish and other accents and languages besides his wide voice register which is about 4 Octaves and Half makes him capable to reach the very high notes in the whistle octave returning back to his Baritenor voice. (Very rare voice type)

Starting from the end of 2006, he started to perform his first concert in French, appreciating the famous French singer Charles Aznavour singing for him twenty-eight of his best songs, then moved to Arabic traditional songs covering Um Kalthoum, Asmahan, Abd el Halim, Abd el Wahab, Farid el Atrash in his own approach.

Asmahan, the Syrian singer who could sing almost everything was a big inspiration for Tony since he was nine years old; she was his favorite singer at that time which was odd that a child listens to an old music, bearing in mind that she died forty years before his birth. When he decided to sing, he actually work from this old inspiration and chose to study Opera singing because he read before in one of the books that she studied opera singing from a teacher which helped her to learn and master her voice, and her talent to use the technique to make it work in any singing style.

Tony sang covering many songs for various singers worldwide like Nat king cole, Fran Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf, Enrico Macias, Julio Iglesias, Giannis Parios, Fairuz, Etta James, others. He also sang couple of Opera Arias includes La Traviata, L’elisir d’amour, Tosca, Aria Antiche, Shubert, Bach, etc…

His Originals started on 2007, when he was asked to write a song for the Lebanese singer Majida el roumy expressing the love of her fans, but it was asked very late from him, so he wrote the lyrics in Arabic and merge in italian music (love in portofino), and sang it with his voice and presented to her as a gift for her birthday from all her fans and the title of the song was ” Star from other stars in heaven” Negma men negoum el sama.

In 2008, he did a unique celebration commemorating the international late Lebanese poet “Gibran Khalil Gibran” by a big concert singing for him and released 2 new songs. Both songs were in Arabic, composed and sang by Tony, Which was the first time to compose a song and having the experience of change the kind of music the audience always use to listen for any Gibran text. The first one was ” You are my brother” anta akhy, discussing the religious tolerance between all faiths, and the second one was a discussion between the person and his soul ” My soul” ya nafssy. The new thing that the first one has a Latin oriental rhythm in the mix and the second one was performed in jazz.

In 2010, Tony released two new songs, the first one celebrating 70 years for the most international song “Besame mucho” and took it with a different arrangement by Amro Salah in a different style “Oriental Latin Jazz” and with Arabic lyrics by Montasser Hegazy. The song expected was a hit on 2011. For the other song, Tony chose a text from the late Egyptian Poet “Salah Jaheen” and composed it in a different and classical way with the piano “Slow music” mazzika hadya

2011, the year of the Egyptian Revolution, Tony recorded his song “You are my brother” in studio with the new arrangement combines modern with classic and made a video directed by himself with a new idea trying to not repeat the usual ideas when the issue of religious tolerance manifested in medias by using symbolic scenes of peace between people.

The song is nominated for peace prize 2012 “Time for Peace for Music and Film awards” and Tony went to Brussels to sing it in the European Parliament as he is the first Egyptian and Arabic musician and singer who is nominated for this big prize and the results will be announced next year.

The song was broadcasted in many international and national channels around the world.

Website : http://tonykaldas.com/