Hamza Shakkur — Arabic Wikipedia

Arabic Wikipedia article on the Damascene munshid Hamza Shakkur; entity facts only: birth at al-Qaboun, Damascus, in 1944, his father a muezzin, his upbringing in the Sufi lodges, his first television recording in 1958, bodybuilding titles (1963, 1966), his presidency of the munshids' league from 1974, the founding with Julien (Jalal al-Din) Weiss of Ensemble Al-Kindi in 1983, concerts with Father Elias Zahlaoui from 2001, and death on 4 February 2009; it cites al-Ittihad and MusicBrainz.