Naseer Shamma

Naseer Shamma
Naseer Shamma in Córdoba, Spain, in 2011
Background information
Born	1963
Origin	Iraq
Genres	Iraqi, Arabic Music, Oud
Occupation(s)	Oud player

Naseer Shamma (Arabic: نصير شمه‎‎) is an Iraqi musician and oud player.

He was born in 1963 in Kut, a city on the Tigris River. He began studying the oud at the age of 12 in Baghdad, following in the footsteps of Jamil and Munir Bashir. He received his diploma from the Baghdad Academy of Music in 1987. He began to teach oud after three years at the academy, as well as continuing his own studies. Shamma has composed music for films, plays and television and created the Arabic Oud House.

Naseer Shamma started his early formation of the relation between poetry and music. He had lots of work in the field of musically read poetry; including: -
• Music reading with the participation of the artist Aziz Khyoun in the Federation of Iraqi Writers, where he presented the "stranger on the Gulf" and "Rain Song" to the great poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab in 1986.

• Music piece entitled "Declaring my love silently" from a poem by the poet Ibrahim Zidan the same name for a TV cultural Baghdad in 1993.

• Participated in the Sixth International Festival of Babylonby composing a poem by El Gawahry entitled "Oh Tigris Good or orchards" and performed it himself within the festival in 1994.

• Music Reading for five poems from "Why did you leave the horse alone" by the great poet [Mahmoud Darwish] presented at a joint concert for them in Tunisia, Berlin (Germany), and Boston (USA) in 1995.

• Made with the artist Jawad Alchukrgi more than 13 joint performances of "Rain Song" and "Stranger to the Gulf"by the poet Badr Shaker Al Sayab at several Tunisian festivals, that received great demand in 1995.

• Music piece entitled "weird gull" dedicated to the great Iraqi poet, "Muzaffar Alnowab" in a ceremony attended by the poet who later improvised a poem, because of the music piece, delivered in the same theater in 1996.

• Evening of "Shahrazad / Forum of female Arab poets" at the ending of Sousse international festival, session 38 on the open-air stage. The ceremony included Music reading to poems of 10 female poets who were: Fadwa Toukan - Palestine, Fadila El Sbby and Fawzia Al Elwi - Tunisia, Zulekha Abu Risha - Jordan, Wafa Imrany - Morocco, Lina El Tibi - Syria, Wedad El Gourani - Iraq, Inaya Gabir - Lebanon, Mona Abdel Azim - Egypt, Thoraya El Arid - Bahrain. In 1996.