Listen to the song "La Taatab Aalayi" by Fairuz
Sunday, 6. August 2006, 08:21:34
Biography of Fairuz, Part 2In December of 1946, Nouhad became a student in Flaifel's class in the Conservatoire where she learned for four years theories of oriental and western music and how to sing and chant. Her parents encouraged her even though they could not afford much, one day her father surprised her with a radio. After graduation, she started her first job as a choir singer in the Lebanese Broadcasting Radio Station.
There she met Assi Rahbani and they worked together. In 1954, at nineteen years of age, Fairuz married Assi and converted to Greek orthodoxy. Soon thereafter, the Rahbani brothers, Assi, Mansour (the Rahbani brothers themselves), and sometimes Elias (also their brother but not included in the expression Rahbani brothers) formulated their company and began composing music for Fairouz (as Nouhad now came to be known).
Fairuz's early recordings were an innovative mixture of Arab instruments and musical idioms with European instruments, such as violins, and dance rhythms, combining Fairuz's distinct vocal timbre with lyrics that expressed nostalgia for Levantine village life. She also sang several patriotic songs for Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Mecca. Her first official appearance was in 1957 in Baalbeck. | © Wikipedia
To view part 1 of this biography please click here: Part 1.
To listen to the song please click here: La Taatab Aalayi / Real Player
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欧阳珊珊 Koma Wing # 6. August 2006, 08:32
good song, is fill of ancient scent
Danke
Koma
Andrzej U # 6. August 2006, 10:33
Very good ....
Umman Şahiner # 6. August 2006, 10:42
Li Beirut... - FEYRUZ(Fairuz)
http://my.opera.com/Umman/blog/show.dml/381156
Fatimah # 6. August 2006, 14:55
I love music from Lebanon.. they have something special in their hearts.
I use to see many videos while living in Egypt from Lebanon since I had their LBC channel too
Thanks again for always sharing
E. Driver # 12. August 2006, 05:52
long time no see.
All the best
Elmar
Fatimah # 12. August 2006, 12:08
Did you see my post about Yusuf Islam? he has a new cd out
please look at it I mentioned you in it
welcome home
Eve
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Anonymous # 10. April 2007, 15:49
thank you for those beautiful Feiruz songs!!!very nostalgic!!long live Lebanon