The Egyptian singer Hamza Namira released the first songs of his new album entitled "Born in the Year of 80", as he presented it on social media platforms and YouTube on Wednesday, with the promise to release two new songs every week, topping YouTube in Egypt with more than a million views in one day, despite some His fans criticized the lyrics and melody of the new song.

Namira returns to his fans two years after the release of his last album "Dari Ya Qalbi" in 2018, whose main song was a great success, despite it being released from his residence in London.

Namira is almost one of the most controversial Egyptian singers, to join a list of Egyptian artists who were forced to leave their homeland for fear of their safety, such as Omar Waked, Khaled Abul Naga and Bilal Fadl.

Namira was born in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on November 15, 1980, and graduated from the Faculty of Commerce, Alexandria University, in 2003.

Early musical interest

Namira began his interest in music from an early age, and joined the musician Nabil Al-Bakli in 1999, to perform with him many musical performances as a singer and guitar player, before Namira resigned from the team and started his singing project.

The real beginning of Namira came with the album "Dream With Me" in 2008, which was very successful among young people who found among his songs a new genre that differs from the prevailing then, as Namira talks about hope and life and re-introduces heritage songs in his sweet voice.

A person after the January revolution

The year 2011 witnessed the launch of the album “Insan” after the January revolution, filled with a tremendous positive energy saturated with the spirit of January, to achieve great success coinciding with the great freedom of expression that Egypt witnessed, and his songs were broadcast on Egyptian satellite and radio stations, and achieved great popularity in the street Egyptian and Arab.

With a voice full of enthusiasm, hope and strength, Hamza Namira sang in his song "Al-Midan" Raise your head. You are Egyptian .. You are one of those who went to the field .. Raise your head You are Egyptian .. You are one of those who stood in the committees. "

And he expressed a man after the January revolution in his song "Insan", and he also expressed alienation in the Gulf countries in his song "Westernization", and sang to Egypt in "My country, my country", inspired by the folklore, saying, "It is well known in the universe that you are ... in your wars. And in your peace ... and if your son dies for you, then my country will die.

Ban his songs in Egypt

In the midst of a state of conflict, confusion and blood prevalent in the Egyptian street, he released his song "And I Tell You What" days before the anniversary of the January Revolution in 2014, in which he expressed his love for Egypt and his fear for it and his rejection of hatred and murder and his pride in the January revolution, at a time when everyone was classified either in favor or Opposing the regime, to direct its call for national reconciliation, "the path of hate has delayed it, uh ... and our hearts died for it ... We have no devil ... Our hope, O homeland, Khulasan ... No one (no one) in us is not lost ... nor wounded."

In November 2014, the Egyptian Radio issued a decision to ban Hamza Namira's songs from being broadcast, to be the beginning of a series of harassment that affected the voice of the Egyptian revolution, before the Musicians Syndicate issued a decision banning him from singing.

Hamzah commented in a tweet on Twitter, "Our Lord knows, I am my life. I have not done wrong to anyone and not wronged anyone, even if someone wronged me, I keep silent (be quiet) and I will not enter (I do not interfere) in any arguments or battles because this is my nature, what remains for a person is a good reputation. God writes it to all of us. "

Hamza Namira: I do not originally present political art. What I present are social and humanitarian songs (social networking sites)

Not the oldest political art

Namira denies any accusations of using politics in his songs, and says in a press interview, "I do not present political art at all, what I present are social and humanitarian songs that talk about topics with a broad perspective and absolute meanings. The recipient is the one who determines how to understand, influence and taste them. Art is always multi-faceted." This is the greatest thing about it, and this is also what makes songs like "Khaled Al-Dakr" Sayed Darwish still live with us now despite the different times and circumstances that made him create them. This art is as I understand it. "

Heritage songs

In 2016, Nimra started his new project to record heritage songs from different Arab countries with a modern music distribution, as he transferred his residency to London, which was considered by some as an escape from the pursuit of the Egyptian regime ruling him, which was denied by Nimera absolutely because he was not mistaken in order to fear arrest.

In February 2018, he released his new album, "Hateer Min Tani", whose song "Dari Ya Qalbi" was broadcast two days before the commemoration of the departure of the late President Hosni Mubarak and the victory of the January Revolution. The song expressed the state of sadness and distress that the generation of the January revolution suffers from and the same number 7 years later. From the revolution, saying, "You bid farewell to a dream every day ... You are alone with your worries, a comeback and alienation com ... and the wound is big."

After two years of absence, Namira returns with his new album, which he released last Wednesday on social media platforms entitled "Born in the Year of 80", whose songs will be repeated every week, dealing with the turmoil that the generation of the eighties feels, and continues his distinguished singing project in which no one competes with him.