Maâlem Omar Hayat
“the showman”
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- Essaouira
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Biography
Essaouira-school maâlem; trained under Mahmoud Guinea and Maâllem Ahmed. Festival regular at the Gnaoua and World Music Festival of Essaouira; collaborated with Ibrahim Maalouf in 2008 and with the hip-hop group La Halla KingZoo (2011) and DJ Rupture at the Frost Festival in Copenhagen (2016).
Lineage
- Student of Mahmoud Guinea