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Hossam Ramzy
PO Box 265
East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 3GN
United Kingdom
phone +44 (0) 1342 410 800
e-mail
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 Hossam Ramzy was
born in Cairo, Egypt. His musical career began early,
when at the age of three he was given his first drum,
an Egyptian Tabla.....
Hossam's passion and huge talent
for percussion was noted by his family, many of whom
were themselves involved in the arts. Hossam was encouraged
to master his craft and studied under leading Cairo
music teachers.
A move to Saudi Arabia led him to joining with many
Bedouin tribes which gave the young Hossam a rich
insight into the cultural origins of Middle Eastern
music and became the inspiration for many of his later
rhythmic directions. In the mid 1970's Hossam came
to England, and enjoyed great success as a Jazz drummer
working with many respected Jazz musicians like Andy
Sheperd and Geoff Williams. But as he began looking
for new dimensions of percussive sounds, he found
himself turning full circle back to his first love,
the Egyptian Drums, and the thrilling dance rhythms
of the Middle East. Hossam then encorporated all his
rhythmic experience into creating a new sound that
is heard on hundreds of the world leading albums recorded
today.
The club dance scene of 2001 was taken by a storm
with Hossam's No# 1 hit EDONY that has topped
the dance charts worldwide.
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distinctive sound of his Arabian & North African
string arrangements, his percussion and exciting rhythms
on his albums caught the imagination of Peter Gabriel
and Hossam was invited to perform on PASSION and later
US, and has just completed the working on Peter's new
unreleased album. Hossam has gone on to work with many
top musicians including Joan Armatrading & Mary
Wilson.
Hossam is known world wide for creating
string arrangements and percussion and produced many
songs for the world's leading artists such as:
Yesim Salkim, Celick Erici, Cheb Khaled, Tarkan, Rachid
Taha, Faudel, The Gypsy Kings and the list just goes
on.
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1994 Robert Plant and Jimmy Page (ex-Led Zeppelin)
invited Hossam to bring together a band of Arabian
musicians and work on their reunion album 'No Quarter
- Unledded' for which he was rewarded a GOLD thena
PLATINUM discs. This led to Hossam joining Page &
Plant on their historic reunion 1995/96 world tour.
During this historic tour, the following
headline appeared
"Hossam Ramzy, The fuel behind the Robert
Plant & Jimmy Page's Unledded World
Tour."
© The Chicago Times
In November 2001 at the 25th Anniversary
of the ARC Music record company, with whom Hossam
has released 18 Albums in his own name for the Egyptian
dance, he was awarded a PLATINUM disc for being their
top selling artist, over 200.000 record sales.
Hossam built his own state of the
art recording environment DRUMZY STUDIO, in which
he has the latest in recording technolgy mixed in
with old;and unique sounds of the best names in recording
equipment. With all this available to his finger tips,
he can now create many new sounds of the old traditional
grooves and Arabian & North African Samples &
Loops of which he has no less than 80.000, all in
perfect BPM, and ready to use. To date Hossam has
recorded and released 4 top selling albums in Drumzy
Studio.
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