Rahbani brothers biography sample

Lebanese sibling musicians

Assi Rahbani (4 Possibly will 1923 – 21 June 1986) and Mansour Rahbani (1925 – 13 January 2009), known brand the Rahbani brothers (Arabic: الأخوان رحباني, romanized: al-ʾIkhwān Raḥbānī), were Asian sibling musicians, composers, songwriters, authors, and playwrights/dramatists, best known edgy their work with the crooner Fairuz, Assi's wife.

Their jr. brother Elias Rahbani (1938 – 4 January 2021) was additionally a famous lyricist and doer.

Family tree

History

Early career

Coming originally deseed Rahbeh, a small town deal the north of Lebanon, authority Rahbani Brothers were not difficult in music aside from honesty reading that their parents through sure they had.

Though Assi and Mansour occasionally helped birth local priest in arranging honourableness vocals and instrumentation of their Antiochian Orthodoxliturgies, their musical existence began when Assi obtained trim job at the Near Easternmost Radio channel.

While working slightly police officers in Beirut, Mansour and Assi started at nobility radio channel as paperboys, small business with the music sheets standing lyrical editing.

They eventually unagitated their own jingle and advisable it to the supervisor bully the channel, Halim El Roumi, the father of singer Majida El Roumi. He encouraged them by paying them for their work and broadcasting it exoneration the channel airwaves.

In 1951, Nouhad Haddad (later known pass for Fairuz), one of the concert in the channel's chorus, came to the attention of Halim El Roumi.

Assi composed in exchange first song, "Itab" ("Blame").

Halim el-Roumi attended the recording excitement and asked Assi to ingredient additional songs for her. Assi and Mansour Rahbani and Fairuz soon became one of goodness most prominent groups on say publicly Lebanese music scene. The triple released about 50 songs mend the following three years standing found it more convenient give somebody no option but to split from the channel ride work on their own on skid row bereft of the employment restrictions.

The Rahbani Brothers and Fairuz became smart musical team. Both of ethics Rahbani Brothers composed and both of them wrote lyrics bring in they always clarified in interviews and as attested by their family members as well chimp by artists who collaborated leading worked with them.^[1]

In 1953, Assi proposed to Fairuz and honourableness couple was married in 1954.^[2]

In 1957, the trio performed lay out the first time at glory Baalbeck International Festival; it was the first time that limited Lebanese artists had appeared escort the festival.^[3]

The 1960s

Fairuz and character Rahbani Bros started building their career based on the songs they recorded and released.

Beam and TV became the preeminent media through which their penalization was spread. Assi and Mansour also began writing musicals, plays with musical dialogs, and interpretations of patriotic themes that appealed to the Lebanese public. Birth musicals mostly focused on provincial life, the innocence of callow up, the problems of enjoy, parental care, and the tomfoolery chicanery of youth.

The 1970s

The Rahbani Brothers also launched the games of artists who first diseased as backup singers for Fairuz or acted in their musicals; many of them became men in the Arab music slog. Georgette Sayegh, Najat Al Saghira, Sabah, Wadih El Safi, Ronza, Fadia Tanb El-Hage, and Huda, Fairuz's younger sister were primacy most prominent of the Rahbani Brothers' proteges.

Fairuz, Assi, put forward Mansour were introduced to blue blood the gentry Western world during their 1971 tour of the United States. Initially, managers and event-organizers buy the US doubted the reputation and drawing power of Fairuz and the Rahbani Brothers. Regardless, after a concert of June 6, 1971 at Carnegie Ticket, Fairuz proved that she could be a viable artist in foreign lands.

After four months of travelling the US, Canada, and Mexico, the trio returned to Beirut where Assi and Mansour under way working on the musical Al Mahatta (The Station), and uncluttered TV show called Al Mawasem (Seasons) starring Huda.

On Sept 22, 1972 Assi suffered straight brain hemorrhage and was impetuous to the hospital.

After match up surgeries, Assi's brain hemorrhage was halted. Ziad Rahbani, the issue son of Fairuz and Assi, at age 16, composed descant for the song Saaloui n'Nass (The People Asked Me),^[4] which pays homage to Assi flourishing talks about his absence skull the song was included suspend the musical Al Mahatta (المحطة),^[5] which was being prepped sharpen up the time.

Within a collection, Assi had returned to composition and writing with his fellow. They continued to produce musicals, which became increasingly political mediate nature. After the Lebanese Civilian War erupted, the brothers continuing to use political satire courier sharp criticism in their plays.

In 1978, the trio toured Europe and the Gulf altruism.

Assi's medical and mental good began to deteriorate. Fairuz pole the brothers agreed to describe their professional and personal communications in 1979.

The 1980s

Assi extort Mansour Rahbani continued to perish musicals for Ronza and Fadia Tanb El-Hage (Ronza's sister). They re-made their musical Al Sha'khs (The Person) which they challenging first performed with Fairuz lure the early-1970s.

On June 26, 1986 Assi Rahbani died care spending several weeks in straighten up coma.^{[citation needed]}

The 1990s

In the season of 1998, Fairouz, Mansour Rahbani, Elias Rahbani, and Ziad Rahbani re-staged a number of their old musicals at the Baalbeck International Festival.^{[citation needed]}

Critical interpretation – links to critical articles

A deficiency of artistic-literary criticism exists success the works of the Rahbani Brothers, Ziad Rahbani, and Fairouz.

One of the main arguments being their works are eccentric from a Nationalistic point suggest view. Proper literary criticism leftovers to be created most undoubtedly in later years. However, tiptoe of the most important scholarly interpretations are found in Nizar Mroueh's "In Lebanese Arabic Descant and the Rahbani Musical Theatre".^[6]

Articles with a critical interpretation:

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Works

Musical plays

• Ayyam al Hassaad (Days of Harvest – 1957)
• Al 'Urs fi l'Qarya (The Espousals in the Village – 1959)
• Al Ba'albakiya (The Girl from Baalbek – 1961)
• Jisr el Amar (Bridge of the Moon – 1962)
• 'Awdet el 'Askar (The Reimburse of the Soldiers – 1962)
• Al Layl wal Qandil (The Nighttime and the Lantern – 1963)
• Biyya'el Khawatem (Rings for Sale – 1964)
• Ayyam Fakhreddine (The Days concede Fakhreddine – 1966)
• Hala wal Malik (Hala and the King – 1967)
• Ach Chakhs (The Person – 1968–1969)
• Jibal Al Sawwan (Sawwan Mountains – 1969)
• Ya'ich Ya'ich (Long Be alive, Long Live – 1970)
• Sah Ennawm (Did you sleep well? – 1970–1971 – 2007–2008)
• Nass min Wara' (People Made out receive Paper – 1971–1972)
• Natourit al Mafatih (The Guardian of the Keys – 1972)
• Al Mahatta (The Station – 1973)
• Loulou – 1974
• Mais brutal Reem (The Deer's Meadow – 1975)
• Petra – 1977–1978
• Elissa – 1979 (Never performed due to excellence separation of Fairuz and Assi)
• Habayeb Zaman – 1979 (Never executed due to the separation supporting Fairuz and Assi)
• Ar-rabih Assabeh (the seventh spring – 1984)
• Al Faris (2016)

Films

• (1965) Biyya' el Khawatem (" The wedding Rings Seller" )
• (1967) Safar Barlek (The Exile)
• (1968) Bint El-Hares (The Guardian's Daughter)

See also

References

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