This faunlike creature is none other than Egyptian megastar Amr Diab, who since the early 80s has been the closest thing that Arabic music has to a King of Pop - and, as you can see, a far more fetching one than than the West's.They do have something in common though: at his start, young Amr was a plump, gawky, really rather lumpy young thing - now, as he heads into his late 40s, he is a sleek, chiseled, almost preternaturally youthful personage.
The lesson to be learned: should the need ever arise, one should definitely plump for Beirut over LA to get Serious Work done.
I suspect there's some major air-brushing going on in this photo. I saw some live footage of him quite recently, and he doesn't look all that great.
ReplyDeleteBetter than when he was a kid in Port Said...definitely. But, in that respect, it doesn't hurt that he's married to a Saudi kazillionairess.
So much for being a man of the people...