Nadah El Shazly, biographie

Nadah El Shazly is an Egyptian singer, composer and producer born in Cairo and based in Montreal.

Her debut album Ahwar (2017), recorded between Montreal and Cairo with Sam Shalabi and Maurice Louca, reworks Egyptian classical and popular music through experimental and electronic approaches, and she appeared on the cover of The Wire in 2018. She has since released Pollution Opera (2024) with Elvin Brandhi and the solo album Laini Tani (2025), longlisted for the Polaris Music Prize, and composed film scores including The Damned Don't Cry (2022), which won best score awards in Dublin and Bordeaux, and Mahdi Fleifel's To a Land Unknown (2024).

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