The BBC Music Magazine announced that the Egyptian soprano Fatma Said has been officially nominated for this year’s BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award, over her new album “El Nour”. Said was born in Cairo in 1991, and at the age of 14, she received her first singing lesson in Neveen Allouba Vocal Studio at the Cairo Opera House. Her teachers encouraged her to continue her studies abroad, and she was accepted into the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. During her study there, Said won the 2013 Startup Music Award for the School of Music. After receiving her BA in Music from Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin in 2013, Said then won a scholarship to study at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milano, becoming the first Egyptian soprano to sing on the ancient theater.

Source: Egypt Independent March 03, 2021 14:03 UTC