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- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Omar Hashim was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1971 and had moved to England in 1976 when he turned five years of age. In 1982, he moved to Canada where he became a naturalized Canadian citizen. Omar commuted back and forth between Canada and England until 1989 when he moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, after graduating high-school. He studied and graduated with three degrees in music theory from the Royal Conservatory of Music in London and Toronto. He also graduated with BIS degree (English & Communication) from Arizona State University. Omar later attended the Vancouver Film School and graduated with a degree in Sound-Design For Visual Media as well as a few certificates of DigiDesign Protools High Lever Operator.
For many years Omar has been producing and mastering music for various clients from DJ's to established musicians including Phillip Western from the 90s industrial band Skinny Puppy and Download. Today, Omar is a sound-designer based in West Vancouver, British Columbia. He has been involved in sound-design, mixing and supervising for many television commercials, several documentaries and short-films. Omar's advanced grasp of multimedia and pro-audio technology allowed him to form his own studio in his West Vancouver home-based company Cave Cybernation, equipped with the state-of-the-art digital recording and editing gear for sound to music and film.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Cave Cybernation
- Canadian citizen since 1986.
- His father was Iraq's former Minister of Planning before and during Saddam's regime until 1982 when the whole family defected to Canada. His father had since been a high profile person, speaking out against Saddam ever since 1979.
- Lived in England from 1977-1992.
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