Hamza Namira

Namira started to develop an interest in music when he was 17 years old, and he set about learning the guitar, keyboard, and ‘oud. He also developed interests in several musical styles: Middle Eastern, Egyptian traditional and folk music, light rock, jazz, and Latin music. From 1999 until 2004, Namira played in a band headed by the Alexandrian artist Nabil Bakly and went on to form his own group. He composed his first songs and succeeded in getting a few like-minded friends together and established the band "Nomaira".

In 2016, Namira launched his own TV series Remix (in Arabic ريمكس) on the pan-Arab TV channel Al Araby. Each 30-minute episode would end with a special collaborative performance of the songs by Namira and an accompanying musical band or vocalists in a contemporary fashion.

In November 2014, Namira‘s songs were banned from Egyptian state radio for "criticising the authorities"

Namira joined a two-day UK tour organized by Human Appeal International to fundraise for medical equipment and provide training for more than 10,000 medical practitioners in Egypt. He performed in Vienna, Austria in October 2014 in an event organized by Humanic Relief.

Namira's fixation on sociopolitical issues continued along the timeline of the Egyptian part of the Arab Spring, with the last obviously relevant work being his 2013 single Wa Ollak Eh, in which he emphasized on rejecting violence, hatred, and the general polarized environment at that time, as exemplified by the Mokattam clashes, in which more than 100 people were injured.

Namira's second album, Insan [Human] was released in July 2011. This coincided with the Egyptian revolution, which he declared was a main factor in his popularity. According to him, he wants to express the real issues of his generation, which he thinks mainstream works don't cover due to concerns of musical market needs and pressure from production companies.

When British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Egypt on February 21, 2011 (only ten days after President Hosni Mubarak left office), Namira was one of a select group of people invited to meet with him and to participate in a one-hour discussion about the future of Egypt.

Namira said his main musical influence is Nabil Bakly; a relatively unknown musician, whose group He joined from 2000 to 2001. One commentator described him as the "new Sayed Darwish".