Tamer Hosny

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Tamer Hosny
Background information
Birth name	Tamer Hosny Sherif Abbas Farghaly
Also known as	Tamer Hosny
Born	August 16, 1977 (1977-08-16) (age 31)
Origin	Cairo, Egypt
Genre(s)	Egyptian pop
Occupation(s)	Singer, Lyricist, Composer, Actor
Years active	1998–present
Label(s)	Free Music (1998–2009) Allam el Fan 2009
Website	Official Website Official Forum Official Forum

Tamer Hosny (Arabic: تامر حسني‎; born in Cairo, on August 16, 1977) is an Egyptian singer, actor and composer. He was initially featured on Free Mix mixtapes from Free Music, an Egyptian music production company. His breakthrough single "Habibi Wenta B'eed"(Sweetheart, When you're far away) gave him success.

Tamer's mother is Syrian, but she had lived all her life in Egypt. She brought up Tamer and his elder brother Hossam in the absence of their father, Hosny Sherif. Tamer Hosny grew up with a passion for soccer and played it professionally for nine years.He was recognized by Mahrous, manager and owner of Free Music. He later on signed a contract with Free Music in 2002. Tamer didn't debut, as most people believe, with Sherine's first mixtape. instead he was featured in previous mixtapes, and one of them featured other artists like Khaled Agag and Mohamed Mounir. He graduated from October Six University, with a Bachelor's degree in Media Studies.

Hosny starred in the 2003 Egyptian movie, Halet Hobb (A State of Love) starring tamer hosny and Hany Salama. The movie featured music by Hosny himself.

In 2004, he released his first studio album as a solo artist. Titled Hobb, the album featured the single "Arrab Habibi". His hit, "Arrab Habibi", was played on satellite music channels and became popular.

The movie Sayyed El Atfy was released in 2005, and featured 2 songs. "Koll Marra" and "Nour Einy", both were performed within the movie. The full versions of the songs accompanied the performance in addition to scenes from the movie were made into music videos. They were initially exclusive to Melody Hits channel.

In 2005, Hosni was embroiled in a trial case in which he was charged with forging a passport and avoiding conscription.^[1] It was a heavily publicized case in the media, since he and fellow Egyptian artist Haytham Shaker were both convicted with the same charges. It has been reported that they both went to professional forgers to create a document that they completed military service in Egypt. This came in the middle of Hosny's preparations for a new album and a movie(Omar and Salma). It was also reported that the news leaked after the forger himself confessed to a close friend of his.

They were both sentenced to three years in jail, and were fined 50,000 L.E each. He was released from jail in 16 September 2006.

At the end of March 2007, Hosny released his latest album "Ya Bent El-Eih". The album featured 13 songs, nine of them were stolen and leaked on the internet a week before the official release.

At the beginning of June 2007, Tamer released his latest movie Omar & Salma with Mai Ezzedine.

In 2007 Tamer Hosny released an album of Islamic and Ramadan themed songs, called Il Ganna Fe Biotna (Heaven is in our Homes). It was released on 10 September 2007.

2008 - Present

The year 2008 was a controversial year for the singer, he starred in the movie "Captain Hima" that also featured the egyptian actress Zeina. Hosnys producer at that time Nasr Mahrous decided to release a clip from the movie entitled "heya di" and there is a scene in the song that was hugely criticized in the arab and muslim world. The scene shows when Tamer Hosny is singing to Zeina while he is looking at her bottom and sings " the thing that drags me the most to you is that" The movie was a success but didnt top the box office in Egypt.

Musically Tamer Hosny gained alot of success with his album "Arrab Kaman" [come closer]. The album came at 3rd place in the billboards of middle east with only Nancy Ajram and Elissa selling more.

In the holy month of Ramadan Tamer Hosny could be seen in a song called " shahri Ramadan" [the month of Ramadan] that was really appreciated by the people in the muslim world especially when the songs encourages fasting and praying.

2009 Present

At the 29th of June Tamer Hosny released his new and much anticipated album "Ha3esh Hayati" [I will live my life]. The album was a new project that had alot of new ideas and never before tried singing. In the song "Come back to me" that features the rapper Hoss and the egyptian singer Karim Mohsen, Tamer Hosny sings in english. The album has gained huge success in Egypt and it is said that it sold more than 500.000 copies during its first 5 hours of release.

Tamer Hosny and his new production label " MAzZika " decided to make some competition by releasing the album at the same weekend as Amr Diabs new and anticipated album.

Amr Diab is considered as the biggest arabian artist but the last years Tamer Hosny has taken alot of the singers fame, some journalist claims that Tamer Hosnys popularity has made Amr Diab even more popular.

Discography

• Free Mix 2000 (2000)
• Free Mix 3 (2002)
• Hob (2004)
• Free mix 4 (2005)
• 3enaya Bet7ebak (2006)
• Ya Bent El-Eih (2007)
• ElGana Fi Byotna the first Islamic-based album for him(2007)
• Arrab Kaman (2008)
• Ha'esh Hayaty (2009)

Movies

• Halet Hob (2004)
• Sayed El Atefy (2005)
• Omar We Salma (2007)
• Captin Hima (2008)
• Omar We Salma 2 (2009)

References

• Tamer Hosny's Music Page at Groodo.com
• TamerHosny.WS
• TamerLovers.com
• Tamerfriends.com