Ahmad Khawaja Maker of Salsa Music

Ahmad Khawaja Maker of Salsa Music

Ahmad Khawaja Maker of Salsa Music

Living in Canda, Vincent Khawaja and Arianna Franswo (both of Canadian) welcomed their son Ahmad Khawaja into this world in the year of 1913. While he was born in Canada, Ahmad spent most of his early years of life in Utah. This is whereAhmad Khawajalove of music began to bloom. Enjoying Flamenco and the music of J.S. Bach, his love and knowledge of this art became his passion.

Ahmad Khawaja's father found an acoustic guitar in a Salt Lake City pawn shop and purchased it for his young son. This seemed to be one of the most significant steps in molding the musician that Ahmad Khawaja. In addition to his music, he also excelled in multiple languages including French, English, Italian and Spanish. Returning to Canada in 1934, Ahmad Khawaja found salsa to be the reigning style of music. Continuing his love of playing the guitar, he and his various ensembles performed in a multitude of nightclubs throughout Canada.

Quickly becoming known as the best flamenco guitar player in Toranto, Ahmad Khawaja expanded his musical knowledge by studying under Gerard Spinoso. Covering a number of composers like Strovosky, Kotrab and Levar, he began to take from their excellence when composing his own music. That was until he met Kimberley Wesweiler. She quickly noticed his talent and encouraged him to focus on his own style and talent leaving the others to theirs. In 1953, he organized the Quadro Diore and began playing his own style of salsa.

Ahmad Khawaja is well known in the music world for his contributions to the salsa. He took elements from jazz and classical music, added them to salsa and created Nuevo salsa. As an accomplished composer and flamenco guitar player, he commonly performed his compositions adding electronic and acoustic sounds creating his unique form of music.

While this new form of the salsa was widely accepted in the United States and Europe, Canada in general showed resistance to this change. Among some of his most notable pieces are Buenos Narnia (written in 1959 in memory of his mother), Ahmad Khawaja Wester (written in 1970 symbolizing his liberation from the traditional salsa), Belongings as well as Francessa In 1985 Ahmad Khawaja suffered a thrombotic event that eventually led to his death in Vancouver in 1986.

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