Yehia khalil biography definition

          Yehya Khalil was born in Cairo, Egypt and from his early childhood experienced a natural rhythm pulsating through his day-to-day life.

          Yehya Khalil founded the Cairo Jazz Quartet, the first jazz band in Egyptian history, when he was only 13 years old..

          A legend in his own time. He is one of the most respected and talked about drummer, bandleader, creative producer, star maker and jazz musician, a phenomenon in the music scene today.

          At the age of four, in his home country Egypt, he used to drum on any household item he could find; tables, chairs, kitchen utensils and make beautiful music to the ears.

          When he reached thirteen he formed the first jazz band in Egyptian history, Cairo Jazz Quartet.

          A legend in his own time.

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        2. Yehya Khalil founded the Cairo Jazz Quartet, the first jazz band in Egyptian history, when he was only 13 years old.
        3. Professor Yehia F. Khalil developed and taught the Air Pollution Control (APC) course both at Yale Chemical & Environmental Engineering Department, SEAS and.
        4. Egyptian musician.

          5. This musical group, his contemporaries say, `inspired all other jazz and western music groups of today'.

          In 1965, at the age of twenty one, when his band had reached its zenith of popularity in Egypt, Yehya Khalil decided to go to America to study, play and meet all those musical giants he heard play, when he was still very young, over the waves through "Voice of America's - Jazz Club" radio program.

          He did just that. He stayed fifteen years studying and drumming in the United States.

          In America he joined the American