Anouar Brahem
Tunisia
 Anouar Brahem
 Anouar Brahem
 Anouar Brahem
Anouar Brahem (born on October 20, 1957) is a Tunisian oud player and composer. He is widely acclaimed as an innovator in his field. Performing primarily for a jazz audience, he fuses Arab classical music, folk music and jazz and has been recording
since at least 1991, after becoming prominent in his own country in the late 1980s.
In 1990 he decided to leave the EMVT and embarked on a tour of the USA and Canada. It was on his return that he met Manfred Eicher, the producer/founder of the German label ECM Records in Munich, and their meeting resulted in a fruitful collaboration which undoubtedly marked a major evolution in Brahem's work (so far, nine albums have been born of their association, all of them extremely well-received by the international press and public on release). To inaugurate this collaboration, that same year Anouar chose to make his first record – Barzakh – together with two outstanding Tunisian musicians, Béchir Selmi and Lassad Hosni, with whom he had already established a close artistic relationship.
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