Kazem Al Saher

Iraqi-born Kazem Al-Saher has established himself as the biggest singer in the Middle East, having sold more than 30 million albums since the start of his career. Ranging from big romantic ballads to more political work, from pop to Arab classical, he's covered the spectrum of music with the kind of success not seen since the heyday of Umm Kalthum. Al-Saher was born in 1961 in Nainawa, Northern Iraq, one of ten children of a palace worker. His interest in music came not from lessons, but the radio, where he learned the works of composers like Mohamed Abdel Wahab by hearing the...