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Fascinating Nubian Songs, Music, Composers, Arageed Damce, Great Masters of the Nubian Song, Contemporary Nubian Artists, Rising Stars of the Nubian Song
Fascinating Nubian Songs, Music, Composers, Arageed Damce, Great Masters of the Nubian Song, Contemporary Nubian Artists, Rising Stars of the Nubian Song
Seid Gayer from Abu Simbel is one of the great artists who contributed to the promotion and improvement of Nubian artistic heritage.
Seid Gayer is one of the Nubian artists who lived and enjoyed the Nubian songs being sung by everybody, from early childhood to advanced age, men and women, without the notion of distinctiveness of the singer, poet or musician. During events the singer was singing among his audience, together with men and women dancing the famous "Arageed" folks dance, turning in the middle among the public adrssing one or the other part of the people who all contributed by singing his refrains. In Old Nubia, ancient melodies and heritage songs were preserved and sung at any occasion, and when new songs emerged often it wasn't even known who had written or composed them, and where they came from. It was the period of fundamental art...
Deeply marked by the displacement of Nubians from Old Nubia, the land along the Nile flooded and drowned after the construction of Aswan High Dam, he introduced songs lamenting this loss among Nubian music with his song "Hanina"
Seid Gayer set up a music and "Arageed" dance troupe, and influenced many contemporary artists.
His songs and compositions are kept alive by his son, the renowned Artist Ahmed Gayer.