Elkotsh

Born and raised in Shubra El-Kheima, a bustling Nile metropolis on the edge of Cairo, Elkotsh got his first taste of shaabi music at local wedding parties, where he'd take charge of the mic, performing with a team of dancers. The genre emerged in the 1920s in Cairo, where it quickly became the soundtrack to working class life, a way for urban Egyptians to vent their frustrations or sardonically deconstruct day-to-day realities. And when electro-shaabi