Hamza Namira

Hamza Namira (born November in the year 1980 in Alexandria, Egypt) into a Muslim family. Although Hamza is Egyptian, he was born and grew up in Saudi Arabia until the age of 12 when his parents returned to Egypt. As with all children, he didn’t like school but thoroughly loved the summer holidays! But he considers it had a good impact upon his personality. At school, he was deeply affected by Islamic principles and religious studies was a favourite subject. He was also interested in the Arabic language and Typography. Upon completion of school, he went onto college and then to University, graduating with a Major in Accounting.Hamza didn’t come from a musical background, in fact he notes that his Father is a Doctor who during his youth had some amateur-artistic involvement. Hamza’s father supplied his children with private musical education as it wasn’t provided at school. The lessons involved memorising rules and theories without actually ever understanding it. This was a complete disaster and made him hate music. He even admits escaping from the lessons! During his teens, a musical interest started to develop and set about learning the keyboard, guitar and Oud (Middle Eastern style Mandolin). He composed his first songs and succeeded in getting a few like-minded friends together and went through what he calls "The Musical Bands Experience". Nowadays he realises the importance of studying music on a professional level. His main musical influence is Nabil Al Bakly