A Bit About Me

Hamoudi Tanoum is an Egyptian composer and music arranger and producer and sound engineer of Nubian origins. Hamoudi plays five instruments as well as different forms of percussion. He is the first Nubian registered composer licensed by the Syndicate of Musical Professions in The Arab Republic of Egypt.

He is a member of Sacem, France.
He is a southern content manager at Sout El Hob distribution company in Egypt.

He began performing professionally as a main keyboardist with the great Nubian artist Khader al-Attar at the age of seventeen.

At eighteen he arranged the music for the first Nubian operetta called "Souttek Ya Samra " by the artist Khader al-Attar.

After that, he began working with all the Nubian artists, performing in concerts in all the Egyptian governorates.

He arranged and produced music for almost seven Nubian albums,the most important of which is “Nabra” for the Nubian artist Mustafa Herki in 2009, and “El Rehla” for the Nubian artist Ghazi Saeed in 2010. He produced and arranged the music of Nubian album “Sedkiat” in 2023. Also he composed and arranged the music for more than 70 songs for Nubian and southern artists of different ages.

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In 2011, he joined the Nuba Nour Band as main oud and tanbour player and vocalist. With Nuba Nour he participated in many festivals after 2012, including in the UK and other European and Arabic countries, the most important of which is "Womad - Drum Camp - Norwich - Shubbak” in the Uk, and “Roskilde festival"in Denmark, Copenhagen, as well as recording and distributing several singles and videos, including a mini album with Nuba Nour band.

He also composed and arranged the soundtrack for several documentary films about southern Egypt, most recently the soundtrack and the songs for the movie “Doors Of Makkah”, which won many awards inside and outside Egypt in the year 2022, by the director Mohanad Diab.

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“Nuba yonna” album was recorded in early 2023, He collaborated with the University of Alberta on a major project aimed at documenting and preserving the Nubian traditional musical instrument, the Tambour, and its players. Additionally, The recordings took place at Hamoudi Tannoum Records studio in Aswan, which served as a key partner in the project. He worked as a sound engineer for all the recordings, and the artistic vision of the Album. The project was managed and executed under the supervision of Michael Frishkopf, a professor and director of the Music Department at the University of Alberta.