Tamino: Sahar

The Belgian-Egyptian singer first came to the guitar as a teenager, when he found a rare resonator guitar in the attic of his late grandfather - Egyptian actor and musician Muharram Fouad, known as "The Voice of the Nile." Today, he plays it along with the oud - creating a double bridge to his cultural past to ultimately understand and articulate his emotional present. And when Tamino sings of mystery and wonder, romance and devotion, sorrow and hope, you sense that he has been to these places and returned to share what he has experienced in a voice that is as strong as it is tender and as compelling as it is comforting. This is exactly how "Sahar" - his captivating second album - sounds, as if Tamino was born to sing these songs.