A tribute to Farid al-Atrash

The Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra pays tribute to the Syrian-Egyptian singer Farid al-Atrash: the ‘king of the oud’ and a legend in the history of Arabic music. With his deep voice and virtuoso playing, he touched millions of hearts. Farid was known for his melancholic songs about love and loss, with which he expressed emotion in an unparalleled way.

Thanks to Al-Atrash’s recordings and radio performances with the legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, traditional popular Arabic music took the world by storm from 1950 onwards. Al-Atrash – who, like Kulthum, died in the mid-1970s – wrote more than five hundred songs, mainly romantic love songs. His music lives on as a timeless legacy that continues to inspire generations. 
The soloist is Tunisian singer Mohamed Jebali.

The Tunisian singer and composer Mohamed Jebali (1967) is considered one of the most recognizable voices of his generation in Tunisia and the Arab world. He rose to prominence in the late 1980s through the television program Noujoum el Ghad (Stars of Tomorrow) and subsequently joined the national orchestra, where he performed classical Arab repertoire by composers such as Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Umm Kulthum. In the decades that followed, he built an extensive body of work with more than one hundred recordings and several successful albums, in which he is active as a singer, writer, and composer. Jebali is known for his virtuosic, emotionally charged interpretations of the classical Arab song. With more than 52k followers on Instagram, he also reaches a broad audience on social media.

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