Our group was the first to sing, record and upload wedding songs that later became known as “Mahraganat” or “Festival” songs.
Our first song was called Al Salam Festival because we live in Al Salam City ( a low income district in north Cairo). Our biggest hit was “Ana elli e’shty haram fi haram” (My life full of sins) which was the reason people started to know us. Our music is a mix between Rap and Sha’by music (street music). We write and compose our own songs. Our lyrics are inspired by the street culture with all its social problems and issues. Our friends also sometimes help us develop some of our songs. We met widespread success playing in Sha’by weddings. We also took part in many concerts inside and outside Egypt.

Sadat El Alamy: Is 27 years 
He started singing 6 years ago when he began singing the song “Koll A’am” (Every Year) he has loved music since his childhood and used to go to Sha’by weddings behind the DJ desk. Alaa and he were neighbors and started their careers in music together in Al Salam. His favorite singers are Ahmed Adawyia and Fairouz. Sadat participated in many concerts inside and outside Egypt such as: many times in France, London, Lebanon, & Amsterdam. 

Alaa Fifty Cent: Is 24 years
He was among the first to sing the Festival songs 6 years ago. His first song was “Al Salam Festival” This song became a huge success and people started to know our names and their music. Festival music is mainly Sha’aby music with a different beat and mixing and a strong rap influence. He chose his name Fifty Cent because he see his as a role model and his music was of a great influence on me. he love Fifty Cent also because he sense in his voice deep emotions and kindness to the people which is something that really matters to me. he also love Dr. Dre and Bob Marley. he never forget the great Sha’by singer Ahmed Adawyia, he is my favorite Sha’aby singer and he listen to his songs all the time. he loves for both Fifty Cent and Adawyia was the reason he decided to sing a mix between rap and Sha’aby. His most known song is “Sohobeyia gat be Nadama” (A friendship I regret).

Amr Haha: Is 24 years
He began in the music field around 7 years ago. He has always had an obsession with computer sound- mixing software and he has developed a great deal of experience over the years. In time he learnt recording and mixing, and his first song was “Ana elli e’shty haram fi haram” ( My life full of sins). Following his first hit, more songs met the same success and started to play at weddings. Later Sadat and Alaa Fifty and they decided to form our band “No Comment”.

Ayman Asfour is Egyptian violin player and composer, born in Alexandria in 1979. 
He started playing the violin at age of 20 with a rejection from the violin teachers in the conservatory in Alexandria to teach him, thinking that he is too old to learn this instrument! So he started to self educate himself for 3 years until he made it to graduate from the violin department in the Faculty of Specific Education and became himself the youngest violin teacher in this faculty at the same year he graduated from.

Later he started to establish himself as professional violinist working with many artists in the Egyptian music scene also started to present him self as a composer and producer for many other projects in Egypt specially for theater and contemporary dance performances. Meanwhile he was mastering many different styles of music like Oriental Arabic Music and Western Classical Music and Jazz and appearing in many theaters and festivals in Malta, Denmark, Ireland, Tunisia, Germany, Kuwait, Netherlands, Jordan, Oman, Bahrain, Switzerland, UK, Lebanon and Congo.

Throughout his musical career Ayman Asfour had many collaborations with many international artists such as the legendary Irish fiddler Frankie Gavin, and the Cello player & contemporary British composer Oliver Coates, and the free jazz Finnish Drummer P.o. Jørgens, and the Jordanian composer Tarek Al-Nasser and the German oud player Roman Bunka and American Trumpeter Amir El Saffar.

Also he shared the stage with many other artists and bands like British violinist Daniel Mirrle and Egyptian electronic composer Maurice Luca and Massar Egbari Band and Station band and Egyptian Oud player Hazem shaheen and Tunisian singer Ghalia Benali and with Egyptian singers Dina El Wedidi and Maryam Saleh and Nada EL Shazly.

Besides he had attended many workshops with many other artists like Palestinian composer/singer/Oud player Kamilya Jubran and Egyptian Qanoun player Hossam Shaker and the Austerian classical quartet,Radio String Quartet, and the German electronic music composer Thomath Brinkman.

Lastly Ayman Asfour has many other musical contributions as a creator and producer and art manager in many other projects.

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