{"id":6277,"date":"2022-10-03T19:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T23:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:07:01","slug":"renowned-yemeni-oud-player-ahmed-alshaiba-dies-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/renowned-yemeni-oud-player-ahmed-alshaiba-dies-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Yemeni oud player Ahmed Alshaiba dies in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Simon Albaugh \u2013 Yemeni American News<\/p>\n<p>New York, NY \u2013 In the later hours of Wednesday, Alshaiba\u2019s brother confirmed that the musician died in a car accident. Renowned for his musical stylings of pop and international music, Alshaiba leaves behind a legacy of new heights for Arab and Yemeni music.<\/p>\n<p>Alshaiba is a self-taught musician, reports Al Araby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBorn in June 1990 and raised in Yemen, Alshaiba had learned to play the oud by ear, rather than through musical notes,\u201d writes Al Araby. \u201cHe moved to the U.S. in 2012, where he wanted to \u2018show the world the beauty\u2019 of the oud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alshaiba\u2019s first public performance in Cairo is considered to be his catalyst to social media stardom. Since performing for Hillary Clinton, the president of Turkey and leaders in Yemen, he\u2019s garnered millions of views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>In his Spotify page, where the singer regularly posted his stylized covers and original music, the Yemeni musician garnered almost 17,000 monthly listeners and 15,000 followers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe demonstrated remarkable technical ability, drawing upon a broad range of stylistic influences, with an uncanny ability to blend them seamlessly into his own style,\u201d reports the National News.<\/p>\n<p>Alshaiba was 32 years old.<\/p>\n<div class='clear '><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Simon Albaugh \u2013 Yemeni American News New York, NY \u2013 In the later hours of Wednesday, Alshaiba\u2019s brother confirmed that the musician died in a car accident. Renowned for his musical stylings of pop and international music, Alshaiba leaves behind a legacy of new heights for Arab and Yemeni music. Alshaiba is a self-taught [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6279,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions\/6279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}