Karim Kadiri grew up in Casablanca where he was born in 1966. He grew up listening to the giants of traditional Arabic music such as Mohamed Abd El Wahab, Oum Kalsoum, Ahmad El Bidaoui and others. He was later introduced to the world of jazz upon watching the Benny Goodman story on TV as a child. Digging deeper he discovered fusion artists such as Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, Miles Davis and many more.

Today Karim is entrenched in all these wonderful sounds of various countries from opera, to gypsy, Bossa-Nova, Sufi, Turkish, Flamenco to avant-garde jazz of folks like Ornette Coleman or John Coltrane.

He now has started a new wave of Arabic jazz www.moudswing.com  with co-founder Barry Sames (pianist, producer and arranger) and as a Moroccan jazz sextet they perform all over the US.

Karim has also made several TV appearances on 2M and RTM where he was featured as a Oudist and composer.

 Kadiri also writes prolifically nowadays (articles and poems) about matters that are near and dear to his heart such as world peace, love and other social issues. His very direct style does not spare any feelings and his basis is simply the universal law of right versus wrong regardless of whom or what the subjects may be.