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  Fairuz AUDIO Files 

The files are in Real Audio format.
 1 Ya 2ouni Sha3biyi
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  (613 kilobytes/ 5'15")
  Written: Joseph Harb.
  Philemon Wehbe
  (music)
 2. Al 2ardou Lakom
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   (632 kilobytes/ 2'10")
   Written by Gibran (poem).
   Ziad Rahbani (music)
 3. Aloum Alhzina
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  (456 kilobytes/ 3'54")
  Good Friday Hymn
 4. Eswaret El3arous
   Zharet El Janoub
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   (733 kilobytes/ 6'16")
   Written by Joseph Harb
   (poem) and
   Philemon Wehbe (music)
 5. Zahret El Mada2n
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   (994 kilobytes/ 8'30")
   Written: Rahbani Brothers
 6. Ziad talking
   about detainees.
 
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   (836 kilobytes/ 7'09")
   From: 7iwar El 3omor
   program (LBC).
 7. Las Vegas Radio Spot

    Arabic        (Download)
   (122 kilobytes/ 1')
 8. Las Vegas Radio Spot
    English       (Download)
   (100 kilobytes/ 49")

 

 

 
 
Fairouz

Our ambassador to the Stars   Born and educated in Beirut, she began her musical
 career as a chorus member at the Lebanese Radio Station.
 In the late 1950s her talent as a singer became fully
 acknowledged.

 Met with unprecedented enthusiasm, Fayrouz's early
 songs featured the singer's distinct vocal timbre and lyrics
 expressing romantic love and nostalgia for village life.
 They meshed with a delicate orchestral blend in which
 certain Arab instruments figured prominently but which
 also subtly incorporated European instruments and
 European popular dance rythms.
 
  She also sometimes sang adaptations Arab folk tunes. By the early 1960s
Fayrouz was already one of the main attractions of the annual Baalbeck Festivals
and a celebrety not only in Lebanon but throughout the Arab world.
The dissemination of hundreds of songs, many musical plays and several films
had widened her audience to include Arabs living in Europe and the Americas.
 
 
During most of her singing career, Fayrouz was part of a three-member team which included the two Rahbani brothers. Generally, her lyrics
were written by Mansour Rahbani, and the tunes were composed
and arranged by his brother 'Assi, Fayrouz's former husband.
Fayrouz's songs owe a great deal to the musical and poetic genius of these two Lebanese artists. In recent years they have also reflected the composing talent of
Ziad Rahbani, Fayrouz's son. In addition, they testify to Fayrouz's broad musical background, which encompasses Christian liturgical forms as well as the secular traditions of Arab music.
 
  The Fayrouz-Rahbani legacy is a peculiarly twentieth-century cultural phenomenon. During the early postwar decades, most urban communities in the Arab world underwent rapid expansion, partly because of an influx of population from the rural areas. The city of Beirut in particular had absorbed a substantial number of people whose ethnic and social roots went back to various Lebanese villages, especially those in the mountainous regions of central and northern Lebanon. Politically and socially influential, this segment provided fertile ground for the rise of a new artistic tradition - music, dance, poetry, fashions, handicrafts - whose context was unmistakably urban but whose ration was folk and rural.

  Fairuz VIDEO Files 

  All The files are in Real Video format.
  1. Fairuz: A story from her childhood  9. Tuinisa 98: News (contains concert coverage)
  2. Bint Elharess Nassam Alyna Elhawa 10. Las Vegas '99: LBC news report
  3. Rings for Sale: Ya Mersal Elmarasil 11. Geneva: Leaving to Geneva (LBC)
  4. Safarbarlek: Dabket Dowara 12. Geneva: In Geneva (MBC)
  5. Baalbeck: A short report (CNN) 13. Geneva: In Geneva (LBC)
  6. Tuinisa 98: At the airport 14. Good Friday 2000: Wa Habibi
  7. Tuinisa 98: Fairuz's message 15. Beiteddine 2000: Press Conference
  8. Tuinisa 98: At the presidantal palace 16. Beiteddine 2000: TV spot 1

17. Beiteddine 2000: TV spot 2: Fairuz

  Fairuz MIDI Files 

  All The files are in Reaal Audio format.
  1. A3tini Alnay atenni.mid 53.9 KB  
  2. Adaysh Kan Fi Nas adaysh.mid 39.6 KB  
  3. Bektob Esmak Ya Habibi bakteb.mid 52.4 KB  
  4. Habaytek Bel Sayf habaitk.mid 43.8 KB  
  5. Nassam 3alayna Elhawa nassam.mid 64.1 KB  
  6. Nassam 3alayna Elhawa nassam2.mid 77.1 KB  
  7. Sa2alouni Elnas salooney.mid 77.5 KB  
  8. Tahoon tahoon.mid 73.3 KB