Music Feature Monday: Cairokee Review.
Throughout many centuries, the huge range of elements in our culture influenced our music and our taste. Therefore, creating diversity in the Egyptian street between oriental songs, classical genres, pop, rap, indie and mahraganat.
We’ve created our own genres, we took foreign styles and made them more adaptable to our Egyptian heritage.
Throughout the years our sounds changed, the tastes of music evolved making a zone from each one that delivers us a zone free of anxiety, a zone where we can sense the happiness, and face our true selves without being ashamed
In the 20th century, music took its big break with different styles between classical, operatic, and pop.
Back then, we were mesmerized by the elegant and the wonderful Om-Kolthum, Soaad Hosny, Abdel-Haleem Hafez and Mohamed Abdel-Wahab.
They tuned us in their music and created a new special genre to the Egyptian society for the aim of enlightenment, for we were intellectual and styles were limited.
Until the 2000s arrived where music took another break creating more modern styles, the whole world spoke the same language of music and we spoke pop. The pop style invaded the world with each country, adding its special ingredient.
In Egypt, when one of the most epic bands of all time that created a style that affected us all, a band in my opinion, is one of the rare and unique style found nowadays, they are Cairokee.
The band exists now for over a decade with a special tune that made an elevation in the music industry. Cairokee touched us all with their meaningful, deep songs.
They let us feel that we own the world, they taught us to be thankful and they created a vibe of liberty and a peace of mind. They have fulfilled their message and their music made us feel their pain and captured our souls, they amazed us with their bravery and wit.
Cairokee is lead by the singer Amir Eid, who by the way suffered from a drug a problem in the past which is a problem facing the youth. Cairokee speaks through the pain as their members have gone through it, they reached to us easily as they hold a genuine message to a gullible, dysfunctional society. As a band, they affected a diverse amount of people from age and gender.
However, when Cairokee first started off they faced many negative comments and criticism for how brutally honest their songs were. Yet through the darkness the light must shine, the Egyptian society went through many revolutions and went through a time of despair. Cairokee took the pain to create a song that made us laugh and cry. As a local band they amazed us as they transformed the reality we know to myth filled of mysteries. They took stories from the streets, they showed the misery and the outstanding. As for today, Cairokee's concerts are one of many awaited concerts, it's the talk of the city. They were sold over millions of copies of their albums. They truly changed our taste and our understandings. They are a symbol of hardwork, a new signature that will be preserved down through history and through our minds. Egypt is full of talents. Passionate beings embrace it to the society, so don’t mind a society that hates changes and new ideas, go through the spotlight and embrace who you are!! But do you know who you are?? Music indicates who we are.