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Riad El Soumbati
real name رياض السنباطي
Riad El Soumbati is credited on 134 albums across 785 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2020 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
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Credits
134
Albums
8
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Egyptian oud player, singer and composer. Born in 1906 in Faraskour (governorate of Domyat, Egypt), he died in 1981. He's one of the most famous figures in arab music.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
785 releases · 134 albums · active 1957–2020
- Performance · 910
- Other credits · 60
- Production · 2
Studios: Le Bataclan · Studio Gorgone · Polysound Studios, Beirut · Studio M. Sound
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Om Kalsoum
- Oum Kalthoum
- Oum Koulsoum
- Sapho
- Hamza El Din
- Various
- They Might Be Giants
- Mokhtar Al Said
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