Ilham Al Madfai - Best of

Ilham Al Madfai - Best of

Ilham Al Madfai was born and raised in the early forties in Baghdad, Iraq. His musical talent began developing at the age of twelve. He was and remains until today a guitarist at heart.
He formally started his musical career when he formed his first band “Twisters” in 1961, compromising of electric guitar, bass guitar and drums. It was the first band in Iraq and probably the Arab world to use modern rock instruments in playing Arabic music. He pioneered Arabic-World music crossover. Ilham modernized the traditional Iraqi song giving it a new wider appeal and a new freshness placing it in the modern era.
The band created a new wave in Arabic music but Ilham was heavily criticised by the public and media for being an eccentric and for destroying long maintained musical traditions.
Ilham has worked with many western and oriental musical talents. He has played with talents as diverse as Donovan, Art Blakey, Johnny “Ace” Harris, Munir Bachir, Tommy Aros, Nazem El Ghazaly, Glen Fisher, Chico, Sabah, Hollis Gentry, Aboud Abdel Al, and collaborated lyrically with the likes of Nazar Qabbani, Bedr Shakir El Sayyab, Ilyya Abu Maadhi, Abdul Qassim Al Shabi, and Abdel
Wahab El Bayati.

01.Mali Chughul Bil Soug
02.Sharrabtak El May
03.Foug El Nakhal
04.Allah Alayk
05.Il rail we hammed
06.Baghdad
07.Khuttar
08.Chal Chal
09.Haya bina
10.Katra fy matar
11.Ashgar fy shama
12.Disaney
13.Wain ya galbi

Iraq
Arabic Crossover
mp3 192

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