Omar Souleyma

Omar Souleyman is a Syrian musician. He sings in Syriac, Iraqi, Arabic and Kurdish. His music can be assigned to the directions of world music, dabke, folk and electronica. Souleyman began his career as a musician in 1994. Since then he has released over 500 studio and live albums, but most of them are tapes of weddings on which he performed and which were given as a gift to the wedding couple and later copied and were sold. In 2011 he performed at the Glastonbury Festival and in June 2011 at the Chaos Festival in Tejas, Austin, Texas. In August 2011 he performed on the Paredes de Coura in Portugal. He was selected by Caribou to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival in Minehead in December 2011. In 2011 he also recorded three remixes for Björk's album Biophilia, all of which are on the second CD of their Crystalline Series for the Single Crystalline. In 2015 the album Bahdeni Nami was released on the label Monkeytown Records by Modeselektor. Two songs on it were also produced by the Berlin producer duo. Other productions come from Gilles Peterson, Four Tet and Legowelt. He lives in Turkey.