#farid al atrash

[boricuacherry-blog]

[ivenusit]

صدر‎ مؤخراً في الاسواق الامريكية كتاب باللغة الانجليزية يتحدث عن حياة الموسيقار فريد الاطرش ونشأته بعنوان فريد الاطرش ملك العود ... الكتاب صدر في ولاية إلينوي الامريكية وتم طبعه في الثامن من هذا الشهر سعيدين جداً لهذا الحدث اللذي اعده انتصاراً لسلسة انتصارات عالمية كان فريد قد حققها في مجال الموسيقى في العالم الى جانب ان صدور مثل هذا الكتاب يفسح مجالاً للجيل الجديد من العرب الذي يعيش في انحاء امريكا كي يتطلع على حياة الموسيقار وانجازاته العالمية في حقل الموسيقى والعزف على العود والغناء وماقدمه طوال حياته من ألحان ومقطوعات مازالت تعيش في وجداننا وزمننا الذي نعيشه 🤎🤎

[sleepnavigator]

arabic music has such beautiful lyrics, i wish i had discovered them sooner!!!

[ela101]

يا زهرة فى خيالي

[nadanasralla]

والكلمة الحلوة الي فبالي، تحرم لو غيرك قلهالي ♥

قلبي ومفتاحه ،مفتاحه، دول ملك ايديك 🦋

[estherattarmachanek]

Asmahan ... The immigrant Syrian Artist who soon died but left great legacy

Asmahan ... The immigrant Syrian Artist who soon died but left great legacy 1- Amal Fahd al-Atrash was born on November 25, 1912, on a ship to Beirut 2- France was after her father who was active in the Great Syrian Revolt 3- Fahd was the governor of the district of Demirci district in Turkey 4- Her mother, Alia Hussein Al-Mundhir, is Lebanese from Chaouiyeh 5- After several moves due to the security pursuit, the family arrived in Cairo 6- They suffered from poverty; the mother worked in 1925, after the death of her husband, at the monastery and sang at weddings 7- Amal has other brothers from her father, Munir, Talal, Karjieh, Etidal, Munira Beginnings 8- She sang alongside her mother at wedding parties and local radio and with her brother Farid 9- The composer Dawood Hosni admired Amal's voice and adopted it and named her Asmahan 10- She married her cousin Prince Hassan al-Atrash in 1933 11-She moved with her husband to Jabal al-Druze in Syria and had one daughter, Camelia 12-She had differences with her husband, so she returned to Egypt 13- She married director Ahmed Badrakhan but they soon separated Cinema 14-She participated with her singing voice in some films such as "Happy Day" 15- She sang with Mohamed Abdel Wahab in the operetta "Layla & Majnun" 16- The song "Mahallaha Aisha Al Falah" was recorded in the same movie 17- and the song “Layta Li al-Buraqi Ainan” in the movie Layla the Desert Girl 18- In 1941, she starred in her first movie (The Victory of Youth) with her brother Farid 19 - In 1944 she acted in the movie "Love & Revenge" with Youssef Wehbe, Anwar Wajdi and Mahmoud Al-Meligy Singing 20- Farid al-Atrash composed several songs for her, the most famous of which are "Layali Al-Ans fi Vienna" and "Ana Ahwa" 21- Riyadh Al-Sunbati composed to her like "For your eyes!" 22-Muhammad Al-Qasbaji composed for her like "when will you know" from the movie Love and Revenge 23- Some of her songs in her short life, Promise me, my heart, my torment is in your love, your gift is my heart, 24- the sun has lost its lights, the victory of youth, I hear the nightingales singing, my love, come to me The end of her life 

[canaryrecords]

n September 1950, the 29-year-old Aleppo-born Assyrian singer Djamal A. Aslan flew into New York City from Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, representing himself as Iranian and having an address in Central Falls, Rhode Island. It is clear that he was not Iranian and unclear if he had been in the U.S. previously. In 1952, he married one Rose Arena in Brooklyn, and the couple divorced less than two years later in Florida. Whether he was actively trying to undermine U.S. immigration laws, we cannot say with any certainty, but it does look that way from this distance.

By November 1953, he had he begun performing. We know he appeared with the Damascus-born, Boston-based singer Russell Bunai and violinist Louis Badwi at the Syriac (Assyrian) Orthodox Church In West New York, New Jersey. And he was very active as a performer in 1954-55, playing with Naif Agby, Philip Solomon, Naim Karacand, Mike Hamway, Mohammed El-Bakkar, Eddie Kochak, Odette Kaddo, etc. Notably, he made a string of appearances during ’54-55 with the brilliant and celebrated Aleppo-born Egyptian violinist Sami al Shawwa (b. 1889; d. 1965) who was on tour in the U.S. at the time.

In 1955 he married Alberta Olever of Paterson NJ, and they settled on the same block of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue as Albert Rashid’s and Fred Alam’s record stores. He could easily have recorded for either of their labels but did not. Instead, he played constantly at Arab-American gatherings in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (with a visit to California in 1957) and set up a music studio on Flatbush Avenue that he called Cinara-Phone where he started giving music lessons.

Between gigs, teaching, and the birth of his two daughters during 1957, he self-produced a group of 14 recordings with all of the best Arab performers in Brooklyn and sold them to the record subsidiary of the 20th Century Fox film company. They were released together as an in April 1958 as Lebanon: Her Heart, Her Sounds, an elaborate - one might say “overblown” for an immigrant - production including a 37-member choir, dozens of performers, and a cover painting by the popular illustrator Irv Doctor (b. 1918; 2008). It was certainly made under the influence of the singer and film star Farid al-Atrash. Its title reference to Lebanon was meant to attract the largest Arabic-speaking group the U.S. (It was also issued in Argentina.) It was clearly the culmination of his hopes and dreams as an American immigrant.

Did it accomplish its aims for Aslan? Not that we can detect. In 1959, he traveled as far as Connecticut and Florida to play gigs for Arab-American gatherings. In 1960, he got the news that his mother Zahida had died in Aleppo. It does not appear that he was able to travel to visit his father Aboud, his sister Antoinette Sayad, and his brother Antoine at the time. So, he stayed in Brooklyn, playing gigs at Arab-American social events and teaching, year after year.

In the mid-60s, the scene for live music at Arab-American events dwindled to almost nothing, and many players had made the transition to playing multi-ethnic nightclubs. Djamal Aslan however did not. He made no more records, and at present, we have no more documentation of his having performed after 1966. He died in Brooklyn June 11, 2000.

Several pieces from his LP appear on our recent Hakki Obadia collection.

[nahnotesblog]

أهواك واصون حبك ولاجيش على بالك ودموعي بتحبك طول الليل صاحيالك .. علشان ماليش غيرك ..

[mariamlovesyou]

im a farid al atrash girl but that interview where he's like "the rumours aren't trueeee everyone thinks we hate each other but there's no conflict it's all love haha" and abdelhalim is just like 🤨 cracks me up everytime

[fatma-rageh-world]

Mesh Kefaya Ya Habeby - Farid Al-Atrash مش كفاية يا حبيبى - فريد الأطرش

.... والظنون ياحبيبى بتمر فى خيالى زى دمعة عين فى ليلة شوق طويلة