He was Hossam was undergoing treatment for a heart condition in Brazil, though the condition was very advanced. Rahman, appeared on recordings by Peter Gabriel and Jay-Z, and composed music for numerous films. Throughout the last three decades, Hossam traveled the world, educating in the art of true Egyptian dance. His concepts of dance and rhythm helped tens-of-thousands of dancers and percussionists perfect their techniques. During this time, he also found the time to release over thirty albums of Egyptian dance and world music, and produce countless more for artists from all around the world.
More about Hossam Ramzy. What a sad news.. But as he began looking for new dimensions of percussive sounds, he turned back to Egyptian Drums, and traditional dance rhythms of the Middle East. Hossam has gone on to work with many top musicians including Joan Armatrading and Mary Wilson. Artist descriptions on Last.
Feel free to contribute! All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now. He may not have been a household name, but his music was heard by millions. Born in the fashionable Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, he came from a successful family. His father, Abbas Ibrahim Hassan, was an entomologist, while his mother Omayma Ramzy was a fine pianist and player of the oud, the predecessor of the lute.
Hossam was given his first instrument — an Egyptian tabla , or goblet-shaped hand drum — at the age of three, and became fascinated by percussion. Encouraged by his mother, he learned to accompany her performances and went on to study western drum styles and the piano while at junior school. When he was a teenager his father moved to Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, to work, and there Hossam studied with local composers and learned new rhythms from the Bedouin musicians he visited in the desert.
Returning to Egypt in the early s he worked as a drummer in the Cairo clubs. Despite the wishes of his father, who did not want him to become a musician, he moved to Britain in , and began playing drums for such rising jazz players as the saxophonist Andy Sheppard. In he dramatically changed his musical direction.
A friend invited him to an Arabic club in London, where an Egyptian band were playing and he was reintroduced to the music he had heard as a child. I never thought that from Egyptian drums there could be such a marvellous sound.
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