WAMA: The Best New Act

Thanks to the rise of Arabic music channels, Arab music industry has been producing new artists like mushrooms! However, music is always about quality, and never about quantity.

Many new comers, but very few worth watching. The best new act over the past one or two years, imho, is WAMA. Last year, this Egyptian boys band, composed of four college students, released their second album Ya Ghali A'aliya, and it was one of the best albums of the year.

The four boys are very talented, and even Amr Diab has collaborated with one of them, namely Nader Hamdi, to work with him on his last album, arranging most songs of Leily Nahary. During last Ramadhan, amongst the vast amount of religious songs that were produced, their song Kan Nefsi was one of the few that really stood out.