| عمرو مصطفى Amr Mostafa |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Amr Mostafa Mohamed Alsayed |
| Born | December 30, 1976 |
| Origin | Cairo, Egypt |
| Genres | Egyptian Music, Arabic pop music, Pop, Franco Arabic |
| Occupations | Singer, Composer, Musician |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1999 – present |
| Labels | EMI, Alam Al Phan, Melody Music |
| Website | www.amrmostafa.com |
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Amr Mostafa (also known as: Amr Mostapha) is a successful Egyptian composer and singer. His composing career began with “Khallik Fakerni”, a song he composed for Amr Diab’s “Amarain” album. Amr’s career soon took off and he quickly became Egypt’s new “hitmaker”. He composed hits such as “Ba’teref”, “Ana Ayesh”, “Aktar Wahed”, “Leili Nehari”, “We Malo”, and “Ne’oul Eih” for Amr Diab. Amr also composed hits for Nawal Al Zoghbi (“Elli Tmanneito”, “Be Einak”, and “Rouhi Ya Rouhi”), Sherine Wagdy (“We Dah Yerdi Min”, “Wala Leila”), Sherine (“Ma Fish Marra”), and Samira Said (“Awini Bik”, “Youm Wara Youm”, “Ma Khalas”, “Bel Salama”). Recently Amr begun to work with more new and budding artists such as Iwan, Sofia Marikh, Soma, and Hossam Habib. In 2007, Amr Mostafa released his first solo album, “Ayami”, and rumors immediately spread about how Amr Diab was attempting to block his success. Problems with Gamal Marwan, owner of Melody Music, resulted in lackluster sales, airplay, and promotion for Amr’s debut album. Amr claimed that Gamal Marwan even came to physically confront him in front of his home, disregarding the fact that Amr has a wife and child living with him. In 2008, Amr faced more legal troubles with Egyptian singer/composer Hossam Habib. Hossam, who owed much of his second album’s success to Amr, released a single titled “Winta Ma’aya” on radio and Melody TV. Amr Mostafa soon released a single titled “Law Fi Hayati”, a duet with Hungarian singer Orsi, which had exactly the same composition. Hossam claimed that Amr stole his song, but Amr claimed that he had presented the song to Hossam and then took it back when his lawsuit against Gamal Marwan and Melody Music began. This lawsuit permanently ended their personal and creative relationship. On June 16, 2008, Amr released his second solo album, “Alama Fi Hayatak”. Amr had previously complained about arrangers who stole from other songs and made him seem like a thief. In his new album, Amr did not work with Adel Haqi and instead worked with Ahmed Adel, Rocket, and a team of foreign arrangers from Turkey and Hungary. His album has met with reasonable success already. and on 2009, Amr Mostafa Released a mini-album for the first time in the middle-east.[1][2]
Amr shot videos for "Bartah Maak" from his album Ayami directed by Jad Shwery and aired on melody Arabia music channel, and "Awel Maaol" from the album Alama Fe Hayatek aired on Mazzika Music channel and Spanish TV, and "Law Fi Hayati" a single duet with orsi plfum aired on Mazzika music channel and Hungarian TV.
Amr's first album was released by Melody Music in 2007; his second album released by Alam Al Phan in 2008, and his mini-album was released by Alam Al Phan in 2009.
Ayamy[3] was Amr Mostafa's Debut album, it contained 12 songs, he introduced the rock music in 2 songs, The Album was a huge success for Amr, but later, Amr had many disputes with the album producer Gamal Marwan because he sold his melodies outside Egypt without his permission, and that resulted in lackluster sales, airplay, and promotion for Amr’s debut album. But Amr's talent was noticed by people and that helped him a lot in his next album Alama Fi Hyatak.
Alama fi Hayatak is Amr mostafa's second album in his career, and the album was a huge success not only in Egypt but in the whole middle east and Europe, The Album was produced and published by Mazzika inside Egypt and by EMI outside Egypt, Outside Egypt and the middle east, EMI reported that Alama Fi Hyatak sold more than 200 Thousand copies in its first week to be The Ultimate Album Of The Year 2008, In Egypt,The album topped the Virgin Mega Stores Best-selling chart for many monthes and stayed in the chart for more than 2 years. In this album Amr Mostafa dealed with Spanish, Hungarian and Turkish music arrangers to mix between the Arab and Europe music cultures. Alama Fi hyatak is definitely The best Arab album in 2008. And the song "Awel Ma Oul" Was featured on album Caribbean 2008 produced by Universal Music and aired on Spanish TV And Radio channels.
Al Kebeer Kebeer is Amr's third album (mini-album) in his career, at first Amr Composed the song demo for Mustafa Sandal, then he liked it's Music so he asked Musti that he is going to sing it, then he wrote Al Kebeer Kebeer song and sang it using the same music and melody, Amr didn't want to release it as a single, so, he though about the idea of releasing a mini-album that consists of three songs only, he used old melodies on the other 2 songs, the album was nice and made good sellings and his song "Ghaltet Omry" was most ordered song in egyptian radio channels in 2009 while there were a lot of hits from - Amr Diab, Tamer Hosny, Hisham Abbas and more superstars who released albums in summer of 2009 - in the challenge.
won 2 times music awards for "Aktar Wahed Beyhbak" & "Youm Wara Youm"
Won 5 Times Best Composer in Egypt for "Aweeny Beek", "Ana Ayesh Wmosh Ayesh", "Wemalo", "Aktar Wahed Beyhbak" And "Ahla Haga Fiki"[4]
He won Best-selling Award From Virgin Megastores in Egypt for his album Ayamy, He also won EMI Golden Award for his Album Alama Fi Hayatak For selling more than 150 thousand copies outside Egypt
Amr Mostafa Worked with the best Arab superstars like Amr Diab,[5] Samira Said, Nawal el Zoughby, Mostafa Amar, Mohamed Hamaki, Ragheb Alama, Sherine, Chab Mami And more of the famous Arab singers.
He also worked with western superstars like Raquel Camins, Orsi Plfum, and Ace Of Base
most of his songs are translated and stolen in the entire world, especially in Europe countries like Israel, Turkey, Russia and Greek[6]
Most of the singers like to deal with Amr because he gives them the best shape of the song, His melodies often contains a special Guitar tone