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A consummate professional, Osama Afifi has been perfecting his style on the West Coast music scene since 1985. His education included studies at the Dick Grove School of Music. He also studied with Jeff Berlin and Gary Willis. For several years he has been the bassist for the B Sharp Jazz Quartet. He helped the quartet reach new heights with his innovative and compelling style. Together, they are being praised by numerous national and regional magazines and newspapers, for example as "one of the most distinctive group sounds in jazz today " (Jazziz). The Quartet toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe. They performed at the North Sea, Istanbul, Nice, Brecon, and Monterey Jazz Festivals, just to name a few. Osama also ventured into composition, co-writing a song entitled "Nami" that is featured on the group's CD "Searching for the One." The song was quoted as "a future Jazz standard" by Billboard Magazine. KLON, LA's premier jazz radio station, chose "Nami" to be on their latest compilation CD. Osama records and performs live with many other artists, including U.S. and Canadian tours with world renowned recording artist Yanni, a European and Canadian tour with French artist Vanessa Paradis, and a TV show on VH1 called Storytellers with Rock and Roll legends The Doors. He worked with Grammy nominated jazz vocalists Kurt Elling and Nnenna Freelon, the Fifth Dimension, rock pioneers The Cadillacs, jazz saxophonist Gary Herbig, singer Debbie Boone, former Miles Davis keyboardist Kei Akagi, Doors drummer John Densmore, Brazilian style guitar duo Hugo Jojo, and jazz trumpeter Tony Guerrero.