Hakki obadia biography sampler
Saaleem (Sam) Shaheen was along with Naim Karacand, Philip Solomon, and Hakki Obadia one of the most talented and in-demand Arab-American violinists of the..
Here find the very best authentic classics by the masters (for dancers), hip/funky/psyche East-West hybrids (for DJs), and other rare, unusual, sensational LPs.Hakki Obadia
stage name of Heskel Haron Obadia
1924 or 1928-2004
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World | Hakki Obadia is an accomplished musician, born in Baghdad (no date available), who plays violin and ‘ud (Middle Eastern lute). At an early age, Obadia was trained in both Western classical and Middle Eastern music. Starting his career in Baghdad, he moved to the United States and studied at the University of California, Berkley, in the 1940s. Earning a music degree, he taught for thirty years in public schools on Long Island, New York. Hakki Obadia taught a mixed fingering system that uses finger 1 for several notes, finger 2 for some, but not all strings and finger 3, but not finger 4.In the 1950s and onwards, he was active in the Arab musical life of New York City, playing in night clubs and in recording studios. He performed with Eddie Kocha… |
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Strictly Belly Dancing Vol. 2 | When Eddie [Kochak] met Hakki Obadia, it was an artistic phenomenon as the Easterner from Baghdad collaborated with the Westerner from Brooklyn. Hakki, while lesser known in the East |