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PR Staff Writer, *ALI ELSAYED'S Album "My Nation" was Released today* - Sufilive.com - USA
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Ali Elsayed's ground breaking Album "My Nation" was released today [Saturday, May 29]. The Album is is Ali Elsayed’s latest Nasheed Album.

Available for purchase in the physical CD format, or as an MP3 download, it is a fusion of Islamic Sufi poetry and modern day music genre.

Although Ali has been singing Nasheed for a long time, this album is truly his crown jewel. Most songs combine English and Arabic poetry with a host of different music genre.

The Concert

Ali Elsayed’s Album Release Concert was a great Success. Ali performed to a packed house at ASIM in Burton Michigan.

The Audience were pleasantly surprised to hear his new album “My Nation”. They were impressed with the wide variety of music arrangement they heard, and with the variety of the different genre in Ali’s Album. From Reggae to country, classical to jazz and not to forget the Arabic flavor fused in each of the tracks.

After performing few of the tracks from his new Album, Ali was asked by Shaykh Hisham to perform some traditional Arabic Nasheed. Bouchaib Abdel Hadi who traveled from California to perform with Ali, was playing the keyboard. All together it was truly a heavenly event.

About Ali Elsayed

Ali Elsayed was born in Lebanon, and had moved to the United States in the early 1990’s. He comes from a family of Sufi scholars and Nasheed singers. At the request of his spiritual master in the United States, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, he started reciting traditional and classical Arabic songs in praise of Allah (Our Divine Lord), and of Prophet Muhammad (His Mercy to humanity).

Ali is a unique Nashid Artist and songwriter. He is able to combine East and West in his music. In the same performance he can start with a song he wrote in English sounding like Roy Orbison, while in another song, he will perform a song in Arabic using the classical Arabic Maqams (scale) and sound like Abdul Haleem Hafiz.

Although Ali’s love for the Arabic language and music runs deep in his heart, he now writes his songs in English. This is so, because during the last six years, he traveled extensively with his teacher Shaykh Hisham Kabbani.

He performed in front of audiences in the USA, Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa. He learned from his travel, that the majority of his audience in the West and all over the world, were deprived of understanding the meaning of the beautiful Arabic poetry, words which can make the spirit dance in ecstasy. He started to write songs in English, in order to communicate the love these great poets had for Prophet Muhammad and all holy people.

Ali continuously expresses his gratitude for his masters. His art is Inspired by the love and teaching of his masters Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani and his deputy Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. He wants to share that love and happiness, which he received from being in the company of such people, with the whole world.

Click the title of this article to listen to samples of Ali Elsayed’s latest Album and/or to purchase it.