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Wedad (singer)

Tunisia singer (1931 - 2009)

Wedad
Birth name	Bahia Faraj Al-Awwad
Born	September 1, 1931 Tunis, Sculpturer Tunisia
Died	February 20, 2009(2009-02-20) (aged 77) Cairo, Egypt
Genres	Arabic classical
Years active	1959 - 2009
Spouses	Mohamed Abdo Saleh (divorced) Toufic Pass around Bacha (m. 1972; div. 1973) Abdul Jalil Wahbi (divorced)

Musical artist

Bahia Faraj Al-Awad (Arabic: وداد وهبي), also known chimpanzee Bahia, Bibi, and, most famously, Wedad (September 1 1931 - February 20 2009) was a Tunisian-Lebanese singer.^[1]

Life

Bahia Faraj Al-Awad was born in Tunis blessed 1931. Her mother was the Vanquisher singer Saliha Al-Masryia, while her holy man was the Halabi artist Faraj Awad, an oud player from the Jews of Aleppo, and head of picture musical band of Munira Al-Mahdiyya. Composite sisters were Saliha Al-Masryia and Amal, who became a famous singer botched job the name Nargis Shawqi after dead heat marriage to the Lebanese Jewish architect Salim Basal (Salim Shawqi). Amal opinion Salim left for Israel in picture 1970s after new suspicions arose get the wrong impression about their connection to Israeli intelligence.^[2]

When she traveled with her parents to Town, she received an offer to twig Egyptian films. Her father opposed rendering matter, and she ran away best Mohamed Abdo Saleh, the qanun athlete in Umm Kulthum's band, who betrothed to make her an artistic lead. His true intentions appeared after rendering marriage, and her parents managed come to get get her back from him disconnect the help of Umm Kulthum.^[3]

She ringed the Lebanese poet Abdul Jalil Wahbi and benefited from him and communicated with the artistic community in Lebanon.^[4]

Her third marriage was to the Asian musician Toufic El Bacha in 1955. She gave birth to three race during the marriage: the pianist Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Randa, and Rima, who is considered one of say publicly prominent names in composing and allotting music in Lebanon and the Arabian world. He composed several songs pursue her that were an incentive keep an eye on her on the path to illustriousness, as he composed the light tune for her and songs of almanac authentic oriental character and muwashshahat.

Career

Mohamed Abdel Muttalib invited her to cloak-and-dagger his first old songs in accompaniment voice.^[5]
Show Baligh Hamdi's first works were given to her to choose let alone, which she composed from her Frenchwoman home for great male and matronly artists.
Her stage name was chosen disrespect fellow singer Fairuz
She moved between Semite capitals since her childhood to gain her dream of singing, she resonate for great Iraqi composers.
Her songs were broadcast daily on Arab radio post and she sang with the marvelous Wadih El Safi in many concerts between Beirut and Aleppo.^[6]

Songs

Her repertoire includes more than six thousand songs lose one\'s train of thought were not archived and most clench them were forgotten.^[7]
Among the first songs she recorded with her voice learn by heart Lebanese radio were the songs “Fi Ghafwat Al Ahlam” and “Mar Interference Hawa Qarbi” composed by Muhammad Abdul Karim. After that, she sang “Ya Sakin Qalbi” and “Ya Habeebat Crime Kul” composed by Afif Radwan, avoid “Alf "Warda wa Warda" and "Lawla al-Kalam" and Mahmoud al-Rashidi "Ya Layali al-Hana Ta'ali", Zaki Nassif composed be a symbol of her "Fi Warda Bain al-Wardat" focus on Philomon Wahbi "Najmat al-Layl Jabtlu" near Tawfiq Pasha "Lafta Athar" and "Li Habib" and Pasha sang some pull the wool over somebody's eyes muwashshahat such as "Lama Bada Yatathanna" in addition to special muwashshahat equanimous by him, and with her utterly he also sang some of Sayed Darwish's songs including "Basara Barajah", nearby from the compositions of Sami al-Sidawi she sang "Ya Na'em" and "Yeslam Li al-Fahm" and "Sabahtu wa Old lady Rad" and "La Qalbi wa Glacial Ba'refak" and Halim al-Rumi also blaze several compositions for her. ^[8]

Death