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Cairokee’s Global Roar: The Pioneering Arabic Rock-Pop Band’s Rise to the Billboard Arabia Charts and International Fame
Cairokee's Global Roar: Pioneering Arabic band's rise to the Billboard Arabia charts.
They weren’t the only band to launch at the time, alongside them we saw the rise of Massar Egbari, Jadal, Adonis, to name a few, but Cairokee have managed to achieve a level of pop and mainstream success with several songs finding a home on Billboard Arabia ’s charts. We find this sound continuing through to their follow-up album, Wana Maa Nafsy Aaed(When I Sit Alone), which sonically oscillates between heavily reverb guitar driven tracks like “Kol Youm Momken Yekoon Bedaya” to songs teetering on pop anthems like “Mestany.” However, we see another turning point for Cairokee in the high production value, and synthpop influences as heard in the hit song “Samurai” to the beat driven “Basrah We Atooh” (Lost in My Headt), both of which continue to chart Billboard Arabia’s Hot 100.
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