He was unaware of their potential until his friends, who are art enthusiasts, recognized their significance. Shamma is one of the most renowned Arab musicians, virtuoso, oud player, and composer.

Naseer Shamma (Arabic ,نصير شمة), is a renowned Arab Iraqi musician and oud player. He was born in 1963 in Kut, a village on the Tigris River. He began studying the oud at the age of 12 in Baghdad, ...

Long uprooted from his native Iraq, Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music, snuffed out by decades of conflict. "When you are in your ...

He studied the oud with Ahmed Mukhtar in London, with Nihad El-Sayed and the renowned virtuoso Naseer Shamma at the Arab Oud House in Cairo and with the Turkish oud master Yurdal Tokcan in ...