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Salah Abbas - صلاح عباس
Saleh Abbas was born in Old Nubia, in a village of Abu Simbel. Since his childhood he loved art, and observed how the adult artists were singing and playing the Tar (the Nubian drum), wishing one day he would be able to play it and sing like them. He was greatly inspired by Mohammed Wardy and sang his songs, and the songs of other artists of his time.
After he moved to Cairo with his family, in the early sixties he sang his first own songs, most on poems of Abdelrahman Abdallah Saleh. As one of the most renowned Nubian artists, lovingly named the "Dean of Nubian Art", he sang in many festivities and events.
Saleh Abbas strived for Nubian unity, and said he is from all Nubian villages. His songs were and are still loved and sung by many artists as well in Lower Nubia (Egypt) as in Upper Nubia (Sudan). Before passing away a few years ago, he often sung in artistic gatherings with other artists and actively promoted teaching the Nubian language, heritage and art to the children.