Obskura:
Luay Rifai with Tammam Hamza
New album: Scheherazade 

About

Instrumental guitar journey

Luay Rifai has always been fascinated with instruments and the amazing way performing can touch each and every person. From a young age, he always wanted to play challenging compositions. Inspiration was abundant between his medical career and growing up in the world's oldest capital Damascus, Syria. 

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Luay's guitar approach revealed high dexterity in original and cunning playing, bringing together his diverse passionate melodic licks and rhythms along with over the top shred-ability, emerging him as a notable instrumental rock guitar virtuoso. Throughout the years, he has been part of numerous genre-specific online communities, participating in various collaboration projects with independent musicians around the globe.

Being a physician further contributed his mind-set and very detail-oriented demeanor of always willing to go the extra step to get the perfect take & feel he's looking for. Luay Rifai is currently a practicing cardiologist.