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- country:Spain
- region:Madrid
- style(s):Flamenco, Mediterranean
- label:Mundo Flamenco, Amir John Haddad
- type:Solo
- gender:male
- instrumentation:string, guitar
- artist posted by:Zoomusic Management
Line up
- Amir John Haddad - El Amir (Flamenco guitar, Greek buzuki, Arabic oud)
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El Amir is the great promoter and a driving force of the music with Mediterranean and Flamenco emotion.
He is a soulful musician, a melting pot of cultures and races, with an enormous creativity, able to transmit generously new emotions to contribute to world harmony.
El Amir is a multi-ethnic musician, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, musical director, producer, maestro as well as a speaker in conferences where he speaks about Emotion, Intuition & Technique.
In nowadays flamenco scene, he is considered to be one of the best concert guitarists due to his personality, maturity, sound and own style. El Amir is one of the most versatile musicians in this world.
He plays flamenco guitar and Arabic oud since he was seven years old and has performed already for thirty years on stage. Along with his extensive career, he has learned how to play traditional Mediterranean instruments such as Greek bouzouki or Turkish saz besides instruments such as electric guitar, banjo, and bass among others being a virtuoso on each of them.
El Amir was born in Freiburg (Germany). Along with his career, he has been developing an interest for many music styles such as Flamenco, Arabic music, Rock, Fusion, World music, Folk, Classical, Indian music, Electronic music, Funk …
In 1998 he moves to Madrid and became a permanent member of the legendary and famous Spanish World-music band Radio Tarifa with whom he toured worldwide for ten years.
El Amir has collaborated with a very long list of renowned artists:
Radio Tarifa, Chambao, Marcus Miller, Juno Reactor (Matrix), Kroke (Steven Spielberg), Hans Zimmer, Maria Dolores Pradera, Jorge Pardo (Ex-Paco de Lucía), Carmen Paris, Joaquin Sabina, Josemi Carmona (Ketama), Enrique de Melchor, Lola Greco, Joaquin Ruiz, Tomasito, Gerardo Nuñez, Raimundo Amador, Antonio Canales, Lole Montoya (Lole y Manuel), Shankar Mahadevan (John McLaughin-Shakti), Navajita Plateá, Naseer Shama, just to name a few of them.
In 1999 he wins the 1st prize for best musical and original composition at the 8th National Competition of Choreographies for Classical and Flamenco Dance in Madrid.
El Amir has joined the new and amazing Project “Canción Andaluza by Paco de Lucia” to form a powerful guitar tandem with Paco’s nephew Jose Maria Bandera.
In 2017 El Amir became the first musician to perform Vivaldi’s Concerto in C major for mandolin on the Greek Bouzouki. He made a special arrangement and adaptation for this beautiful Mediterranean instrument and played it live accompanied by musicians of Spain’s National Orchestra at the National Music Auditorium in Madrid.
El Amir has released two flamenco guitar albums “Pasando Por Tabernas” (2006) and “9 Guitarras” (2013). Further with his World-music band Zoobazar “Uno” (2011) and “Dos” (2014) performing Mediterranean and Middle Eastern folklore fusion.
He has presented this year his own flamenco guitar signature model El Amir by the Luthier José Salinas and distributed by Mundo Flamenco.
El Amir has been a permanent member with the legend of trance music Juno Reactor band since 2013 and has collaborated on “Alien” and “Return of the Pistolero”.
He has been featuring as a soloist in the Tour of the renowned music film Hollywood composer “The World of Hans Zimmer” 2018.
He is currently preparing his 3rd flamenco guitar solo album to be released in April 2019.
