I feel... I've been working too much...
I feel like a runaway train.
But we'll always have music.
Tamino - 'Persephone':
Director: Ramy Moharam Fouad
Concept: Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad, Ramy Moharam Fouad, Fleur Boonman
DOP: Maxime Desmet
Producer: Chanel Selleslach
Production Company: Nono C.
1st Assistant Director: Casper De Geus
Focus Puller: Patrick Nishimwe
Gaffer: Ken Sody
Set Decorator: Peter Schollaert
Styling: Adrien Gras
Make-up & Hair: Mathilde Van Hoof
BHTS: Abel Kleinblatt, Thor Salden, Bastiaan Lochs
Cast: Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad, Elisabeth Van Lierop
Montage: Olivier Lambrechts
Grading: Xavier dockx
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The BBC wrote last year:
Of Belgian, Egyptian and Lebanese heritage, 22-year-old singer-songwriter Tamino Moharam Fouad has quite a name to live up to.
His late grandfather, after whom Tamino was named, was one of the biggest stars of the so-called golden age of Egyptian musical cinema in the 1960s.
He was so popular in fact, that he was given the nickname "The Sound of the Nile".
Tamino - whose first name comes from the hero of Mozart's The Magic Flute - discovered his voice when he began singing at home after school before taking himself off to Amsterdam to study music at the age of 17.
"It was very natural to always sing within my full range. I think it was because I could express some emotions better when I sing a higher set of notes and some others that are expressed within the lower frequency.
"The falsettos sound more like crying and the bass can be more like a confident sound, it was a way of expression."
Singing in English rather than French, Dutch or even Arabic - Tamino's music marries his western upbringing with his middle eastern roots, creating a sound that is unique.
On album tracks like Sun May Shine and So It Goes, the singer has used a Brussels-based orchestra or firqa made up of refugees from countries like Iraq and Syria.
"It was a conscious decision to record with an Arabic orchestra on some songs in order to emphasise it. The sound is so beautiful, they bring such greatness to it, this almost royal sound."
Tamino is not the only artist blending middle-eastern and western music, the Palestinian-Jordanian dance collective 47 Soul sold out the Jazz cafe in London earlier this year.
"Some people think it's risky to mix Arabic music with soul, dub and hip hop. We don't believe that," they told BBC Music News LIVE while artists like Omar Souleyman and Egyptian rapper Ahmed Mekky are influenced by western musicians.
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The Independent compared him to the late Jeff Buckley...
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I'll meet you there.
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