"Cairokee" Band Member Tamer Hashem Contracts Coronavirus

Musician-actor, Tamer Hashem, a member of the Egyptian rock band "Cairokee", has become the latest celebrity to contract Coronavirus.

Hashem announced Wednesday the diagnosis on social media, asking all those who contacted him to get tested.

He was seen recently on the five-season of TV series “Hekayat Banat” (Girls’ Tales).

It also stars Myrna Noureldin, Hend Abdelhalim, Hager Ahmed, Asmaa Galal, Ahmed Karara, Hazem Ihab, Khaled Mansour, Laila Hussein, Mohamed Ibrahim, and more.

The series is directed by Mustafa Abu Seif and penned by Marian Hany and Nihal Samaha.

“Hekayat Banat” has spanned for five seasons with different leading female actresses, depicting the stories of four women and their romantic relationships, private lives, dreams, and aspirations.

Cairokee is an Egyptian rock band that was officially founded in 2003 but came to prominence with its revolutionary music following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, due to its politically inspired lyrics and protest songs released following the uprising.

Their song “Ya El Midan”, featuring prominent Egyptian singer Aida el Ayoubi — who had previously retired in the 1990s— ranked number one on Facebook worldwide for downloads and number eight on YouTube with more than half a million views on the video channel in just two days after its debut release.

The band consists of lead vocalist Amir Eid, lead guitarist Sherif Hawary, drummer Tamer Hashem, keyboarder Sherif Mostafa, and bass guitarist Adam el-Alfy.

They were friends ever since they were young during their school days and Hashem was already a drummer back then.

In 2003, Eid and Hawary had already started an English band initially called, "Black Star". They started playing cover for English songs with only one Egyptian Masry song “Ghariba” that was highly admired by their audiences.

Cairokee was mainly influenced by "The Beatles" and "Pink Floyd".

They launched in 2017 album “Noaata Beda” (White Point), which featured 10 songs.