Through Cairo: Hakim (featuring Cleopatra) and "Walk Like an Egyptian"

Today's random song is by Hakim, and features singer Cleopatra. Hakim is an Egyptian singer that mixes Arab traditional songs with Western beats in an update of Egyptian popular music known as Sha'bi which often begins with improvised vocal stylings at the beginning of the song. He was the first person from an Arab nation to perform at a Nobel Peace Prize event. I could find nothing on Cleopatra anywhere, unless the original Cleopatra came back from the dead to sing this song. I like this cover of Walk Like An Egyptian because an Egyptian musician actually turns this American pop song into something different, something that is actually Egyptian. Adding the Egyptian motifs such as Arabic, slowing the song down with the Egyptian style drumming on goblet drums, and the Middle Eastern orchestration makes it even better than the electric guitar riffs with a faintly Middle Eastern sound like the original version of The Bangles. You can find Walk Like An Egyptian on the CD Desert Roses, Vol. 3 (2004).

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakim_(Egyptian_singer)