Biography
Abdel Latif Gohar was an ophthalmologist with a private practice and in the Egyptian military where he held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Dedicated to music, he started as a violinist before taking up the buzuq, the long-necked, steel stringed lute. Nizar Ismael tells us that he also "founded a weekly music salon from the 1950s-70s. Sonbati, Abdel Wahab, Farid Atrash, and many other prominent musicians were regulars."
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During a visit to London for a medical conference, he performed on the Arabic service of the BBC, and in the early '70s two further performances were issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. The origin of the four performances issued here by the New York Al-Chark label remain unclear.
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