Description
Palestinian, Lebanese and British Kamar is a DJ and record collector, uncovering dance music of the global diaspora. Kamar’s name, based on the Arabic ‘Qamar’, which means moonlight, reflects his heritage and the feeling that many places have felt like home. His life’s experience has seen him travel extensively with an ethnomusicological focus across Latin America, the Middle East and South Asia, as well as live in Cape Town and Lisbon.
Join Kamar on the WOH Radio stage for “Tealeaves: Exploring South African Musicians Exiled Under Apartheid Rule”. This show will explore the powerful legacy of South African musicians who were exiled under apartheid’s brutality yet kept their homeland’s spirit alive through extraordinary innovations, particularly in Jazz – our presenter, Kamar, host of Tealeaves on Worldwide FM, will delve into the lives and compositions of artists like Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, and Abdullah Ibrahim, and more, whose music became both refuge and resistance.
