There has also been an increase of R&B, reggae and hip hop influence of Arabic music prior to now 5 years. This generally involves a rapper showcased within a song (including Ishtar in her track 'Habibi Sawah'). The Moroccan singer Elam Jay acquire a present-day Edition of Gnaw

The music in Iraq began to take a more Western tone over the 1960s and nineteen seventies, notably by Ilham Madfai, together with his Western guitar stylings with traditional Iraqi music which designed him a well known performer in his indigenous region and through the Middle East.[29][thirty]