Half a century since the absence of the genius of voice and music, Farid al-Atrash. On December 26, 1974, the great musician Farid al-Atrash passed away, leaving an unparalleled artistic legacy in the world of authentic rapture, sweet singing, sophisticated music, surprising melody, joy, hope and love.
Fifty years in the eternal absence, but his presence and the flash of magic, his music, his melodies and his voice attend the presence of the renewed life, grabbed and hummed by the great and the small in the great Arab world, everyone who lived and knew the late, and everyone who did not live with him and knew him, the songs of Farid al-Atrash, with the lightness of the tyrant, infiltrated into The tenderness of a person yearning for love, for the lover fascinated by the passion of life and a good life, for the wanderer on the face of the pure awakening that connects him to the beauty of the coast of life and its interiors.
An outstanding musical genius, highly qualified for the science of music and melody
However, it was a school of musical renewal, and the foundations of an oriental lyrical specificity, which brought about a quantum leap in authentic rapture. An outstanding musical genius, with great merit, the science of music and melody, in addition to the talent of special tarabic singing. The great pillars of Arabic music, such as Riyad al-Sunbati, Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab, Baligh Hamdi and others, attest to him.. that he left remarkable and new imprints in music and singing..
Farid al-Atrash
Born in Jabal al-Druze (October 19, 1910 – December 26, 1974), a Syrian-Egyptian singer. His father, Fahd Farhan Ismail al-Atrash, is from Jabal al-Druze in Syria, his mother is Princess Alia Hussein al-Mundhir, and his sister is the late singer Asmahan, from the Bani Said al-Adnaniya clan.. He adapted the pub to suit the Egyptian environment and culture, so he sang most of his songs in the Egyptian dialect. “.
He adapted his melodies to suit the Egyptian environment and culture
Farid al-Atrash and his sister Amal al-Atrash (Asmahan) fled with their family to Egypt and settled there.
He worked and worked in various exciting works, until he was discovered by Medhat Assem and included him as a oud player in the Egyptian Radio Band. His first composition was his famous song, “Oh, I wish you would fly, let me fly around you.”
