Omar Khairat to perform in London

CAIRO – 18 November 2017: Veteran musician Omar Khairat will perform a concert in the concert hall in St John’s Smith Square in London on December 1.

This concert is designed to collect donations for charity and to help in raising awareness about street kids and orphans in Egypt.

Khairat is a composer and a pianist. He was born in Alexandria and raised in a family of musicians. He began his career in 1959 as a pianist.

Khairat was a member of the Egyptian band Les Petits Chats, which was founded in 1967.They used to sing Italian, French, and English songs. The band was immensely popular in the late 1960s and the early 1970s.

Khairat is influenced by different genres of music such as Arabic, European classical, Egyptian, African, jazz, pop, and blues. He won the Best Musician award in 1989 by the Egyptian Society for Cinema.

Khairat is a composer that can creatively blend the style of international symphonies with Egyptian music masterfully. He has composed many successful music pieces, such as “Dameer Abla Hikmat” (Abla Hikmat’s Conscience), “Wagh Elkamar” (The Moon's Face), and “Leilet el-Kabd ala Fatma” (The Night Fatma was Arrested) among others.