Sami Shawa

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Sami Shawa or Sami Al-Shawwa is a Syrian violinist born in 1887 and died in 1960. After creating a music school in Cairo in 1906, he became famous both for his solo performances and for having accompanied the great singers of the time, including Oum Kalsoum.^[1][2][3]

He mastered almost all the musical styles, and modes of the Arab world at the time. Described as a virtuoso by the CNRS , his first recording dates back to the 1920s. Re-released in 2009 by Columbia he is mainly known today thanks to a 2003 re-release under the title Master of the Arabic Violin. There is another recording released in 1932, Prince of the Arab Violin, re-released in 1967 and categorized as a rock album.^[4]