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Bassil Touma. Photo: by Dale Langden.
Bassil Touma
Bassil Touma. Photo: by Dale Langden.
Touma grew up singing traditional Lebanese songs at parties, festivals and with his school choir in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. As a teenager, Touma enrolled in Tripoli’s music conservatory to study oud, including classical, traditional and folk styles as well as theory. He went on to work with the internationally renowned Syrian “Sultan al Tarab”, Georges Wassouf, for several years. In 1993, Touma came to the U.S. and settled in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He currently lives over yonder in Staten Island. Touma’s repertoire includes Lebanese beladi, traditional mountain folk songs such as the genre referred to as jabali, as well as classical muwashahat, standards sung by Lebanese master Wadi El Safi and more contemporary Lebanese music such as that of Assi El Helani. Touma regularly performs a range of Egyptian and Levantine favorites at nightclubs, parties and festivals in the metro area.
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