Loading ...‘Music Was Always The Escape’: Omar Kamal On Shaping His Artistic Identity
NPR Staff Morning Edition Twenty-four-year-old jazz crooner Omar Kamal is a certified heartthrob. The debonair singer, called the “Palestinian Frank Sinatra” by some fans, was born in Nablus, a town on the West Bank. Kamal says it’s pretty quiet now, but when he was growing up, it was a turbulent area. He was 8 years old … Continued