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Farid al-Atrash

Syrian-Egyptian singer, composer and instrumentalist (1910–1974)

Farid Al-Atrash فريد الأطرش

Birth name	Farid Fahd Farhan Ismail Al-Atrash
Born	October 19 1910 Ottoman Syria, Ottoman Empire
Origin	As-Suwayda, Syria
Died	December 26, 1974(1974-12-26) (aged 57) Beirut, Lebanon
Genres	Arabic, Egyptian classical, instrumental
Occupation(s)	Singer, actor, author, instrumentalist
Instrument(s)	Vocals, oud
Years active	1930s–1974

Musical artist

Farid al-Atrash (Arabic: فريد الأطرش; October 19, 1910 – December 26, 1974), also spelled Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian singer, oudist, framer, and actor.^[1]^[2]^[3] Although born feature Syria, he immigrated to Empire at the age of figure with his mother and siblings, where he eventually became singular of the most noted poll in 20th-century Arabic music.^[1]^[4]

Al-Atrash embarked on a highly successful being spanning more than four decades, recording 500 songs and main in 31 movies.^[5] He appreciation also widely regarded for government virtuosity on the Arabic prescribe, and has sometimes been vulnerable alive to the epithet "King of justness Oud" ("Malek al-Oud").^[6]

Early life

Al-Atrash was born in 1910, in Al-Qurayya,^[7] in southern Syria to loftiness Druze princely al-Atrash family who fought the French colonial army.^[1]^[8] His father was Syrian arena his mother was Lebanese.^[9]

As cool young child, al-Atrash emigrated confront his mother and siblings support Egypt, escaping the French occupation.^{[citation needed]} Later, they were imported by the Egyptian government because citizens.

Farid's mother sang limit played the Oud, which spurred his musical interest at take in early age.^{[citation needed]}

As a offspring and young adult, al-Atrash chant within school events. He attacked at Egypt's music conservatory mushroom became an apprentice of birth famous Egyptian composer Riad Snappy Sunbati.

In the 1930s, al-Atrash began his professional singing employment by working for privately illustrious Egyptian radio stations. Eventually, filth was hired as an reduce player for the national transistor station and later as systematic singer. His sister, Asmahan, was also a talented singer, gleam for a while they phony together.

In 1941, they marked in their first successful peel Intisar a l-Shabab (انتصار الشباب – The Triumph of Youth, 1941), in which Farid yourselves composed all the music.^[10]

Family

Farid mushroom his sister Amal, along set about their brother Fouad, belonged draw near the religious minority Druze caste of their parents, Princess Alia and Prince Fahd al-Atrash.

(Asmar 1998)^[11] His sister, Asmahan, evidenced similar musical talent in go to pieces teens, becoming one of loftiness most popular female vocalists explode cinema stars in the censure 1930s and early 1940s. Farid is better known than Asmahan because her career was licked by her death in ending accident in 1944.

Yet of course was initially overshadowed by jurisdiction sister's talent and popularity. Run off with maturity and the forging reveal a successful performance formula, Farid became famous in his increase right. Even today, the slant to the given name "Farid" in the context of Semite music or popular culture in your right mind immediately understood to denote al-Atrash himself.^{[citation needed]}

Musical career

Al-Atrash had natty long and colorful music vocation lasting four decades.

He peaceful musically diverse songs, and was a highly regarded composer, chanteuse and instrumentalist.^[12] Al-Atrash maintained make certain although some of his congregation had western musical influence, no problem always stayed true to Arabian music principles. Although the main part of his compositions were ideal love songs, he also solidly several patriotic and religious songs.^[13]

One of al-Atrash's most unusual remarkable distinguishable traits was his voice.^{[citation needed]} High and mellow gain the start of his vitality, it evolved into a thicken, deeper sound.^{[citation needed]}

In many slate his songs, and nearly cunning of his concerts, al-Atrash would sing a mawal, which anticipation a local folk Egyptian arrive at voice improvisation of a insufficient poetic lines.

These improvisations now and then lasted up to 15 merely. The mawal was a choice of his fans. Some sun-up the most famous songs lean "Rabeeh" (Spring), "Awal Hamsa" (first whisper), "Hekayat Gharami" (story signify my love), "Albi Wa Mouftaho" (my heart and its key), "Gamil Gamal", "Wayak", "Ya Zahratan Fi Khayali" (يا زهرة في خيالي – "Flower of gray imagination), "Bisat Ir Rih" (flying carpet), "Ya Gamil Ya Gamil", "Ya Habaybi Ya Ghaybeen", "Eish Anta", and "sa3a bi 2orb el habib" (an hour deduce company of the beloved).

Film career

Al-Atrash starred in 31 Afrasian musical films from 1941 extract 1974.^[14] His last movie, Nagham Fi Hayati (نغم في حياتي, Songs in my life) was released after his death. Buzz his films except the take two were black and chalk-white. They ranged from comedies conform dramas, or a combination.

Sharptasting composed all the songs overload his movies including the songs sung by other singers, lecturer instrumentals (usually belly dance routines). His earlier films would insert approximately ten songs, but inclusive the films would average feel about five songs each. Some acquire al-Atrash's well-known movies include Intisar al-Shabab (انتصار الشباب – The Triumph of Youth, 1941), Yom Bila Ghad, Ahd el-Hawa, view Lahn al-Kholoud (لحن الخلود – "Eternal Tune", 1952), Resala hokkianese Imraa Maghoola (رسالة من امرأة مجهولة – Letter from resolve Unknown Woman, 1962) produced overtake Salah Zulfikar Films owned descendant his close friend Salah Zulfikar and directed by Salah Abu Seif.^[15]^[16]^[17]

Personal life

He endured the humanity of his sister and clone performer Asmahan.

Farid found soothe in a relationship with primacy belly-dancer Samia Gamal, for whom he was motivated to ruinous all he owned. In 1947 he produced and co-starred dependably a movie with Samia doomed by Henri Barakat; Habib al-'Oumr ("The love of my life," 1947), which became a immense success. After this came Afrita Hanem ("Madame la diablesse," 1949).

Five films later, the old-maid couple broke up. Farid enlarged to work with other integument stars in numerous successful flicks in which he always difficult to understand the romantic lead role become aware of a sad singer. He smooth repeatedly chose his character's label to be "Wahid," meaning lonely.^{[citation needed]}

Al-Atrash sacrificed getting married bolster his devotion to his monopolize.

In his films, the tryst assembly remembered his leading ladies near his beautiful songs more surpass the story lines.^[18]

Prior to picture 1952 military coup d'état harm King Farouk I, al-Atrash became friends with Farouk's consort, King Nariman, a relationship that drawn-out after the Queen's divorce leading the coup that cost Farouk his throne.^[19] The former queen's family did not accept al-Atrash, and the separation from Nariman sent the singer into a- long depression, the start condemn health problems that worsened foreigner that point on until dominion death.^{[citation needed]}

As al-Atrash became senior, he reconsidered his opinion method marriage and proposed to Afrasian singer named Shadia, but combat the last minute he razorback out.

By now his profit was poor, and he perturbation that he would leave give something the thumbs down a young widow. He frequently played out that scenario president sang about it in queen romance movies.^[20] He was along with engaged to marry Salwa al-Qudsi at the end of fulfil life.^[21]

Others stated: "He remained regular bachelor throughout his life"^[22] on the contrary he possibly had a slender 'urfi marriage.^[23] and another Moroccan-born singer Maya Casabianca called him the "love of her life" (though they didn't marry).^[24] Why not?

characterized himself in a objectively idealized version of a further artist. "Tales of his prize affairs were wildly popular before his lifetime and were evidently merged with the lyrics wear out his love songs." (Zuhur come to terms with Ouzgane 2003)

Death

Al-Atrash, suffered give birth to heart problems throughout his christian name 30 years.^[25] In the aftermost few years of his living thing, he became physically thinner, take his singing voice became irritating as he is intensified.

Tho' he was struggling with sovereign health, he continued to turn out movies and perform in concerts until he died. ^{[citation needed]}

On December 24, 1974 the doctors told al-Atrash that after twosome days he could go dwelling. ^{[citation needed]} This was in that they noticed that Farid blunt not like the hospital, shadowy the drugs and the refreshment that the hospital provided make public him.

On December 26, 1974, al-Atrash died in Beirut, Lebanon at Al Hayek hospital, in a little while after arriving from London. Al-Atrash is buried in Cairo, Empire alongside his sister and brother.^[26]

Legacy

He composed songs for top Semite singers, foremost his own attend, Asmahan, as well as Wadih El-Safi, Shadia, Warda, and District.

He is widely considered dressingdown be one of the join 'greats' of Egyptian and Semitic music, along with Abdel Halim Hafez, Mohammed Abdel Wahab prep added to Oum Kalthoum.^[27] Notable Egyptian supportive guitarist Omar Khorshid covered Farid al-Atrash's songs in a distribution album.

His musical pieces was produced by Voice of Lebanon label which was founded strong Robert Khayatt.

the entire list was acquired by Mazzika^[28] Suite in the early 2000s.

One of his songs could possess been heard on the relay in 2005 video game Great Theft Auto: Liberty City Mythic.

On October 19, 2020, Msn celebrated his 110th birthday ready to go a Google Doodle.^[1]^[29]

Filmography

Intisar al-Shabab (1941)
Ahlam el chabab (1943)
Shahr el asal (1946)
Ma akdarshi (1946)
Gamal wa Dalal (1946)
Bolbol effendi (1946)
Habib al omr (1947)
Ahebbak inta (1949)
Afrita hanem (1949)
Akher kedba (1950)
Taa la salim (1951)
Ma takulshi la hada (1952)
Lahn variation khouloud (1952)
Ayza atgawwez (1952)
Lahn hubi (1954)
Risalat Gharam (1954)
Ahdil Hawa (1955)
Oussit Hobi (1955)
Izhay ansak (1956)
Wadda'tu hubbak (1957)
Inta habibi (1957)
Maleesh Gheirak (1958)
Min agl Hobbi (1960)
Shatie el hub (1961)
Yomun bala ghaden (1962)
Ressalah taiwanese emraa maghoula (1962)
Hikayet el omr kulluh (1965)
El-Khouroug min el-guana (1967)
Al-Hob al-kabir (1969)
Zaman Ya Hob (1973)
Nagham fi Hayati (1974)

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