Moroccan musician Yassir Chadly and Cuban-Jazz Piano Artist Omar Sosa reviewing their song "Sister in Yellow" from the CD "Sentir" available on Ota Records.
Shaykh Yassir Chadly plays a Moroccan Gnawa song, describes what a gimbri is made of and discusses the kind of Moroccan who wishes to be more American.
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Moroccan musician and lecturer Yassir Chadly talks about his Moroccan roots in music and how he began fusing western and Moroccan themes in America , his introduction to Jazz and how as a young boy in Morocco he heard Ray Charles on the radio. He also speaks about performing and music in Islam.
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Moroccan humorist Yassir Chadly discusses the shock of 9/11 and how he coped with the accusing looks of the people around him.Filmed live at the DVC Storytelling Festival. 2002
Yassir Chadly discusses the vanity of stickshift drivers, and proposes a National "GIve The Finger Day "
to eliminate the sting of rude gestures . Moroccan comedic insights into American culture.
Yassir Chadly, Moroccan musician and Sufi Storyteller discusses the differences between Moroccan and American toilets.
At the Diablo Valley College storytelling festival in Concord, California.
Recorded in 2002.
