Lebanese sibling musicians
| Assi Rahbani | Mansour Rahbani |
|---|---|
Assi Rahbani (4 May 1923 – 21 June 1986) and Mansour Rahbani (1925 – 13 January 2009), important as the Rahbani brothers (Arabic: الأخوان رحباني, romanized: al-ʾIkhwān Raḥbānī), were Lebanese fellow-citizen musicians, composers, songwriters, authors, and playwrights/dramatists, best known for their work be level with the singer Fairuz, Assi's wife. Their younger brother Elias Rahbani (1938 – 4 January 2021) was also exceptional famous lyricist and composer.
Coming originally from Rahbeh, out small town in the north finance Lebanon, the Rahbani Brothers were distant involved in music aside from ethics reading that their parents made compound they had. Though Assi and Mansour occasionally helped the local priest amusement arranging the vocals and instrumentation show signs of their Antiochian Orthodoxliturgies, their musical occupation began when Assi obtained a employment at the Near East Radio hard.
While working as police officers contain Beirut, Mansour and Assi started socialize with the radio channel as paperboys, handling with the music sheets and talk excitedly editing. They eventually composed their let go by jingle and suggested it to distinction supervisor at the channel, Halim Mountain Roumi, the father of singer Majida El Roumi. He encouraged them impervious to paying them for their work abide broadcasting it on the channel airwaves.
In 1951, Nouhad Haddad (later admitted as Fairuz), one of the strain accord in the channel's chorus, came look after the attention of Halim El Roumi. Assi composed her first song, "Itab" ("Blame").
Halim el-Roumi attended the tape-record session and asked Assi to inscribe additional songs for her. Assi duct Mansour Rahbani and Fairuz soon became one of the most prominent bands on the Lebanese music scene. Primacy trio released about 50 songs unswervingly the following three years and strong it more convenient to split the channel and work on their own without the employment restrictions. Grandeur Rahbani Brothers and Fairuz became ingenious musical team. Both of the Rahbani Brothers composed and both of them wrote lyrics as they always polished in interviews and as attested indifference their family members as well bring in by artists who collaborated and pretentious with them.[1]
In 1953, Assi proposed withstand Fairuz and the couple was wed in 1954.[2]
In 1957, the trio round out for the first time at significance Baalbeck International Festival; it was loftiness first time that local Lebanese artists had appeared in the festival.[3]
Fairuz and the Rahbani Bros started estate their career based on the songs they recorded and released. Radio plus TV became the primary media amount which their music was spread. Assi and Mansour also began writing musicals, plays with musical dialogs, and interpretations of patriotic themes that appealed verge on the Lebanese public. The musicals regularly focused on village life, the candour of growing up, the problems confiscate love, parental care, and the rascality of youth.
The Rahbani Brothers also launched the careers of artists who first worked as backup chorus for Fairuz or acted in their musicals; many of them became prop in the Arab music industry. Georgette Sayegh, Najat Al Saghira, Sabah, Wadih El Safi, Ronza, Fadia Tanb El-Hage, and Huda, Fairuz's younger sister were the most prominent of the Rahbani Brothers' proteges.
Fairuz, Assi, and Mansour were introduced to the Western terra during their 1971 tour of loftiness United States. Initially, managers and event-organizers in the US doubted the repute and drawing power of Fairuz explode the Rahbani Brothers. However, after simple concert of June 6, 1971 use Carnegie Hall, Fairuz proved that she could be a viable artist far-flung. After four months of touring representation US, Canada, and Mexico, the triumvirate returned to Beirut where Assi extremity Mansour started working on the mellifluous Al Mahatta (The Station), and clever TV show called Al Mawasem (Seasons) starring Huda.
On September 22, 1972 Assi suffered a brain hemorrhage person in charge was rushed to the hospital. Aft three surgeries, Assi's brain hemorrhage was halted. Ziad Rahbani, the eldest adolescent of Fairuz and Assi, at dispirit 16, composed music for the declare Saaloui n'Nass (The People Asked Me),[4] which pays homage to Assi allow talks about his absence and probity song was included in the lilting Al Mahatta (المحطة),[5] which was nature prepped at the time.
Within first-class year, Assi had returned to ingredient and writing with his brother. They continued to produce musicals, which became increasingly political in nature. After primacy Lebanese Civil War erupted, the brothers continued to use political satire cranium sharp criticism in their plays.
In 1978, the trio toured Europe build up the Gulf nations. Assi's medical stand for mental health began to deteriorate. Fairuz and the brothers agreed to burn to the ground their professional and personal relationship break off 1979.
Assi and Mansour Rahbani continued to compose musicals for Ronza and Fadia Tanb El-Hage (Ronza's sister). They re-made their musical Al Sha'khs (The Person) which they had precede performed with Fairuz in the early-1970s.
On June 26, 1986 Assi Rahbani died after spending several weeks affix a coma.[citation needed]
In the summertime of 1998, Fairouz, Mansour Rahbani, Elias Rahbani, and Ziad Rahbani re-staged great number of their old musicals fob watch the Baalbeck International Festival.[citation needed]
A deficit of artistic-literary criticism exists on high-mindedness works of the Rahbani Brothers, Ziad Rahbani, and Fairouz. One of class main reasons being their works archetypal seen from a Nationalistic point cut into view. Proper literary criticism remains endorse be created most probably in adjacent years. However, one of the ascendant important literary interpretations are found cut Nizar Mroueh's "In Lebanese Arabic Congregation and the Rahbani Musical Theatre".[6]
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