Nader Guirat born in Sousse

Sousse

Sousse is a city in Tunisia. Located 140 km south of the capital Tunis, the city has 173,047 inhabitants . Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea. The name may be of Berber origin: similar names are found in Libya and in...

, Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

 in 1986 is a Tunisian singer

Singing

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 who in 23 May 2008 won the title of the fifth edition of the Arab Star Academy after a very close competition with the other two finalists. He got 34.44% of the votes against runner-up Muhamad Quayder who got 34.04% of the votes and third Saad Ramadan with 31.52% of the votes. Guirat sang songs in Arabic, French, English, Spanish and Italian and was the first winner who had basically a non-Arab repertoire of songs interpreting varied genres like Pop, Rock, House, Reggae and songs from musicals and had duets with artists like Alessandro Safina

Alessandro Safina

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, Tina Arena

Tina Arena

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, Karl Wolf

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, Massari

Massari

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, Chris De Burgh

Chris de Burgh

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, Cheb Khaled, Milk & Honey

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 and others.

Guirat started singing early and at 15, formed his band "Hypnos". He traveled to Germany to complete his studies. Returning to Tunisia, he formed another band called "Introspection".. He has composed songs of his own and plays the guitar.

He went on to release his single in French entitled "L'Ange Perdu" (the lost angel) with lyrics by Ayman Jaoude and music by Marwan Khoury and musical accompaniment by National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine

National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine

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with Fouad Fadel leading the orchestra.

External links

• www.naderguirat.net Official Website
• Nader Guirat Facebook page
• Nader Guirat on MySpace