Back to Baghdad: How the Iraq uprising inspired singer's ode to home

@5lllllc on Instagram‎: "Sami Kamal, the exiled singer of the South and the voice of the absent homeland, was born in 1940 in the Al-Kahla (Al-Mas'ida) district of Maysan Governorate, in a modest home rich in values, hard work, and dignity. His father, Manati, was a tailor of traditional Arab robes, and his mother was a housewife to an ambitious young man, the eldest of her six children. From a young age, Sami shouldered significant responsibilities.This soon crystallized in his early inclinatio