Omar Bashir - My Favorite Dance

Omar Bashir - My Favorite Dance Album - Al Andalous, 2001 Omar Bashir was born to be a musician. The son of late influential oud player Munir Bashir (1930-1997), Omar has continued to explore the mode-based, raga-like Arabic Taqsim that his father helped to bring to the international stage. Taught to play the oud at the age of five by his father, Bashir studied music and ballet in Baghdad two years later. Graduating from the Academy of Music and Ballet, he went on to study art at the Conservatory of Baghdad