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Feb 26, 2008 · victornewman06. 62.8K subscribers. Subscribed. 99K. 11M views 16 years ago. One of 1984's finest. Born Greg Broussard, The Egyptian Lover started off doing his thing as a Los Angeles DJ doing...
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Gregory James Broussard (born August 31, 1963), better known by his stage name Egyptian Lover, is an American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ, and was a part of the L.A. dance music, electro, and rap scene in the early 1980s.
- He played his first DJ gig while he was still at school. The daughter of a club owner invited Egyptian Lover to play at her party, but he wasn't sure he could recreate the same effects and loops using record players so they offered him $1,000 to try.
- Club Radio helped Egyptian Lover find himself. The small LA venue Club Radio gave Egyptian Lover a space to experiment. "With Uncle Jamm's Army, we were limited in what we could do.
- His name was inspired by Egyptian imagery. "Growing up in the 'hood, the first thing you want to do is to get out of there. In my mind, I took myself out of there, just took myself to any place I could find, which was probably Egypt at the time," he says.
- A greedy studio engineer gave Egypt Egypt its amazing sound quality. Egyptian Lover credits the sound quality of his 1984 EP Egypt Egypt to the studio engineer, who was being paid by the hour.
The Egyptian Lover (born Greg Broussard on August 31, 1963) is a Los Angeles-based producer, vocalist and DJ who was popular during the 1980s for his hip-hop/electro-funk hybrid songs created...
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Egyptian Lover. 53,712 likes · 2,132 talking about this. Electro Pharaoh
The Egyptian Lover. The best-known song by L.A. electro hip-hop pioneer Greg Broussard, aka Egyptian Lover, “Egypt, Egypt” has its roots in an earlier tune called “Beast Beats.”. As the...
