Mayer Murad, Nessim Murad, Zaki Murad, and the Murad Family Legacy of Recorded Sound in the US and Egypt
Mayer Murad, Nessim Murad, Zaki Murad, and the Murad Family Legacy of Recorded Sound in the US and Egypt Mayer Murad, Photo property of the Sephardic Heritage Museum. New York, New York. Zaki Murad, Photo courtesy of AMAR Foundation for Arabic Music Archiving & Research. Only known photographs of Nessim Murad. Photo courtesy of family member Stefanie B. Most people who know anything about the history of Arabic music, record collecting, or Arab or Arab American 78 rpm records have heard of Zaki Murad and his daughter Layla Murad. Few people know that Layla’s uncles and Zaki’s brothers were also musicians who recorded in the United States – Nessim Murad and Mayer Murad. At Midwest Mahjar our collection contains dozens of 78s by Zaki and/or Layla Murad, but for years we were perplexed by the existence of Maloof Phonograph Records by Nessim and Mayer. Mayer Murad’s career was known to us because of our familiarity with Dick Spottswood’s Ethnic Music on Record listing of Ma...