DAM Co-Founder Suhel Nafar [Quartertones]
Suhel Nafar joins us on QuarterTones to discuss his colorful and accomplished musical career to date. He walks us through the early days of Palestinian hip-hop group DAM, growing up in Lydda, and working with artists across the region and from the diaspora. We also talk about his family’s ‘Bootleg Jackson 5’ group, Palestinian hip hop and his departure from DAM.
Suhel Nafar is the co-founder of Palestinian hip-hop group DAM, which was featured in award-winning documentary Slingshot Hip Hop. Formerly, Nafar was the global lead of Arab music and culture at Spotify and is now the vice president of strategy and market development at Empire Distribution WANA. He is also the music supervisor for Netflix’s show ‘Mo’.
About Quartertones
Quartertones is a music show. It is an opportunity to listen to music, across genres, from musicians of and from the Arab world. This series is similar to NPR’s All Songs Considered that is focused on the Arab world. afikra will be inviting musicians of all genres, as well as music historians, to help better understand the music that they perform or study. In this series, the guests will be invited to talk about their work and play their music, whether live or recorded, in three segments. The series will host current musicians who play contemporary and modern, including alternative scene or hip-hop, electronic, classical music, among other genres. The musicians will also be from different geographies.
