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| Sout El-Hob صوت الحب | |
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| Parent company | Dozzan Music Group |
| Founded | 1972; 53 years ago (1972) |
| Founder | Atef Montasser |
| Status | Active |
| Distributor(s) | Sout El-Hob Entertainment, Modissa |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | Egypt |
| Location | Giza,Egypt |
| Official website | soutelhob |
Sout El-Hob Records[1] (fromArabic:صوت الحب للإنتاج الفني والتوزيع, "The Voice of Love") is an Egyptianrecord label founded in 1972 byAtef Montasser.[2] Sout El-Hob has the 4th largestArabic music catalog in theMiddle East &North Africa. It has also distributed many movies domestically and abroad under the name of “Sout El-Hob Movies."[3]Mohsen also worked withAtef as a distributor before he set up his own company.
In 2015, Sherif Montasser,Atef Montasser’s nephew, took over Sout El-Hob as owner andchief executive officer through Sout El-Hob Entertainment, one of the companies Dozzan Music Group owns.[4]
Hany Shaker is one of the first singers that Sout El-Hob discovered and produced his first 4 releases.Montasser is credited with discovering the talents ofAhmed Adaweyah,Aziza Jalal,Mohamed Fouad, Medhat Saleh, and Metkal Kenawy.[5] He is also credited with bringing the Algerian singerWarda to prominence, and he produced one of her movies entitled “Ah ya liel ya zaman” in 1977.[6] Sout El-Hob has distributed many movies domestically and abroad under the name of “Sout El-Hob Movies (Atef Montasser and his Partners)”, and recordedOmar Khairat’s music, the recitedQuran by SheikhMahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary.[7] TheQuran was composed of 31 cassettes and recited by Sheikh al-Tablawi. Sout El-Hob has revived the musical heritage ofSayed Darwish after discovering the talent of Iman El Bahr Darwish, and recorded the songs ofFayza Ahmed andNajat on cassettes for the first time.[8] Moreover, Sout El-Hob has produced a song titled “Fe Aman Allah” byMohammed Abdu in his early career.[9]
Atef Montasser met composer Hani Shenouda in the mid-1970s, and they established “El-Masryeen Band”.[10] The first cassette for the band was released in 1977, containing eight short songs. The recording process took eight months and the cassette tapes were imported fromGermany andSwitzerland. The members of the band included Mona Aziz, Eman Younis, Tahseen Yalmaz, Mamdouh Qassem and Omar Fathi. Many prominent poets have written songs for the band, includingSalah Jahin and Omar Batesha.Montasser also met Doctor Ezzat Abu Ouf in the mid-1970s and they established together a band titled “Four M”.[11] The members of the band were Ezzat Abu Ouf's sisters: Mona, Maha, Manal and Mervat.
EMI, a Britishrecord company, selected Sout El-Hob to be its partner and take charge of its production in theArab world in 1984. This partnership lasted for six years. Sout El-Hob has the fourth largestArabic music catalog in theMiddle East andNorth Africa (MENA). In 2013, EMI was acquired by Universal Music, its subsidiaries were subsequently broken up, and portions of the company were sold to other entities. Sout El-Hob was eventually acquired byMazzika Group.
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