Haris Nuri

I was born and raised in the City of Hamburg, Germany.
My parents are both from Kabul, Afghanistan.



After finishing German high-school (Abitur) I studied first Business Administration at the University of Hamburg/Bremen and then Computer Science at the University of Applied Science in Heidelberg and earned thus 2 university-degrees.
A three months undergraduate degree program for international students at a college in the Bay Area/California and an internship in Boston, Mass for five months, rounded up my international experience.I worked for some multinational companies like Siemens, Dt. Telekom, EADS, SAP and currently working for a multinational Business-Softwaredeveloping company in Heidelberg, Germany in the field of Business Consulting.
I also used toWork for our family-owned enterprise which is a wholesaleoriental rugs & carpets business, operated and owned for more than35 years by my father, located in the Freeport of Hamburg.



Besides this I started my musical career comparatively late, compared to others who were born into musicians families, in 1997 when buyingmy first keyboard.



I changed my attitude towards performing music the day I become acquainted with my dear friend Ali Etemadi. Besides becominggood friends he was also convinced that he recovered a certain amount of musical talent and encouraged me to get more into music through hard practicing and listening.



Soon I noticed that for Afghan music it will be a tremendous help to know the basics of our afghan music which are mainly based on theclassical music rules of North India.My first teacher who gave me an introduction to the world of Indian Thaatís and Raagaís was Mr. Alishah Sadozai (Khoshal), a well-known,Hamburg based, excellent Ghazal Singer who is still one of my favorite singers and for whom I have great respect and admiration.
Alishah-jaan is still teaching as a certified musical educationalist in the field of North Indian Classical Music Theory at the "Staatliche Jugend-musikschule Hamburg".
Equipped with this knowledge and through hard practising I was able to play and accompany by ear, which is a fundamental ability of eastern style of music.I really appreciated this ability especially when accompanying Masters like Ustad Sharif Ghazal or high-class Ghazal Singers like Najim Nawabi.



The next crucial chapter of my musical career was when leaving my beloved hometown Hamburg and moved to southern Germany inorder to start my second degree at the "University of Applied Science" in Heidelberg.



Through my friend and very talented tabla player, Mr. Omed Noori,I met Mr. Nasrat Parsa (RIP), who was related to him.Soon we became very good friends and we blended well on stage. Since then I accompanied Nasrat-jaan on stage at all of his concertsincluding our last tragic concert in Vancouver.
I also arranged songs for his 2 last albums Naz and Dil.
Through Nasrat-jaan, who was a student of great Pakistani Ghazal Singer Ghulam Ali Khan, I learned more into detail of raagas and through rhythm-practicing with my friend Omed (who is a student of great Tabla-Maestro Pandit Anindoo Chatterjee) improving myunderstanding and feeling of "Lay" (rhythm).



In order to get more into western roots I took also piano lessons (classical style) for 2 years
from my dear teacher Wolfgang of"Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst Heidelberg".



Nowadays the most projects I spend, along with my band colleauges, with artists like Farhad Shams, Jawid Sharif, Obaid Juenda and in the USAEhsan Aman, Najim.



Besides performing and working on modern pop music I enjoy listining to Hindi Ghazals and to "light Classicals" like amazing Ustad Rashid Khan (India). I also enjoy listening to arrangements of worldwide renowned Greek Keyboarder and Arranger Yanni.



Nowadays I am in the process of building my own band with the help of my dear friends and music colleagues and thus providing professional music and live performances to afghan artists.
For the future I will also get more involved into arranging and sequencing music which I was not able to accomplish in a high degree due to lack of time.



I toured with many Afghan artists around the world such as USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, Afghanistan.Following Top-artists I have performed with:
Nasrat Parsa (R.I.P.)
Alishah (Khoshal) Sadozai
Ustad Sharif Ghazal
Ahmad Wali
Najim Nawabi
Ehsan Aman
Wahid Qassemi
Fawad Ramez
Ahmad Parveez
Obaid Juenda
Jawid Sharif
Farhad Shams
Rahim Mehryar & Parasto
Faiz Karezi
Haidar Salim
Mahbubullah Mahbub
Ali Etemadi
Furthermore I have performed with following popular artists:
Shabnam Suraya (Tajik Singer)
Hooshmand Aghili (Iranian Singer)
Sharon (Indian Singer)
Shahin (Indian/UK Female Ghazal Singer)
Freshta Sama
Hangama
Walid Soroor
Wajma Soroor
Ahmad Morid
Ahmad Walid
Enayat Hamid Popal
Same Rafi
Hafiz & Devyani Ali
Sapida (R.I.P.)
Naim Popal
Hasib Ashrafi
Habib Qaderi
Faiz Qaderi
Qader Eshpari
Mamoon Eshaq
Mustafa Jalali
Shahla Zaland
Sima Tarana
Mariam Wafa
Mozhdah
Omar Shekeb
Ahmad Reshad Feroz
Shahna
Naghma
Najim Nekzad
Hashmat Ehsanmand
Zarif Yusufi
Homayoun Sahibzai (Pashto Singer)



My favorite Keyboarder: US/Iranian Keyboarder Shubert Avakian
My favorite Afghan Keyboarder: My good friend Rahee Jahani
My favorite Afghan Singer: Ahmad Wali