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He earned various honors in the Arab world and was head of the Syrian Artists Syndicate.įakhri is survived by four sons, including Anas, a singer. Download Podeo to unlock the Arab world’s largest podcast library.
“Quran is the great school for performance and good and clear pronunciation,” he said in the interview, aired in 2014.įakhri studied music and singing in Aleppo and Damascus, the Syrian capital. Because of his powerful voice, Fakhri briefly worked as a muezzin - the person who calls for prayers - at a mosque in Aleppo. He memorized the Quran when young and began reciting in mosques - a common path for a number of musicians and singers in the Arab world. A family member used to pinch him to hear him cry because “he liked the sound of my crying.”
“I started singing when I was born,” he once told an interviewer for Egyptian TV CBC. Throughout his career, Fakhri preserved and popularized traditional forms of Arab singing and music, including Quddud Halabiya, native to his hometown Aleppo.įakhri’s voice was so powerful and distinct, he once told his interviewers that his family recognized it when he was a baby. Dubai police said they arrested a group of people who appeared in an indecent video on charges of public debauchery. He once performed for 10 hours straight in 1968, at a concert in Caracas, Venezuela, without a single break, earning an entry in the Guinness World Records. Onstage, Fakhri would engage the audience and sway to the music almost in a trance, turning the lyrics of his songs, often in classical Arabic, into refrains they can easily sing back with him. He soon rose to fame to become one of the Arab world’s legendary tenors and one of its exceptionally charismatic entertainers.įakhri was a world class Tarab singer, an Arabic form of music associated with emotional evocation that can last for hours.
3, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 4, Dubai, UAE 5, Bahrain 6, Kuwait 7, Mosel. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. Abbreviation: ATLS, Arab Teens Lifestyle Study. He was 88.īorn Sabah Abu Qaws in the Syrian city of Aleppo in 1933, Fakhri got his stage name as an adolescent when he started performing. Listen free to Arabic Songs The Best Arabic Music - Top 20.
BEIRUT (AP) - One of the Arab world’s most famous singers, Sabah Fakhri, who has entertained generations with traditional songs and preserved nearly extinct forms of Arabic music, has died, Syria’s government said Tuesday.