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A Brief History of the Rahbani Music Family
The Rahbani name is known across the entire Middle East and beyond. For over 70 years, the family has been producing music and gaining fame in their native Lebanon in the 1950s before becoming household names in many neighboring countries.
Today, three generations of Rahbanis have become famous musicians, defining and shaping the cultural heritage of Lebanon and bringing their music to the world.
Fairuz, Assi, & Mansour
The story of the Rahbani family begins in the late 1940s with two brothers named Assi and Mansour. They were both musically inclined and had received an upbringing that included a fair amount of choral and classical training. Their start in the music industry began with their jobs as paperboys in a local radio station in Beirut, where they were responsible for arranging music sheets and editing lyrics.
The station served as a platform for the Rahbani brothers to begin writing their own music. They put together a piece of music that impressed the radio station supervisor, Halim El Roumi, and he allowe
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Ziad Rahbani
Lebanese composer, pianist, and playwright
Musical artist
Ziad Rahbani[a] (Arabic: زياد الرحباني, born 1956) is a Lebanesecomposer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator. He is the son of Fairouz, one of Lebanon and the Arab world's most famous singers, and Assi Rahbani, one of the founders of modern Arabic music.[1] Many of his musicals satirize Lebanese politics both during and after the Lebanese Civil War, and are often critical of the traditional political establishment.
Personal life
Ziad Rahbani is the son of the Lebanese composer Assi Rahbani and Nouhad Haddad, the Lebanese female singer known as Fairuz.[2][3]
Rahbani was married to Dalal Karam, with whom he has a boy named "Assi" but he was later found out not to be his biological son. Their relationship later ended in divorce, prompting Karam to write a series of articles for the gossip magazine Ashabaka about their marriage. Rahbani composed a number of songs about their relationship, including "Marba el Dalal"[4] and "Bisaraha".
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Ziad Rahbani: A Lebanese Icon
posted on: Aug 7, 2024
By Luke McMahan / Arab America Contributing Writer
When speaking of Ziad Rahbani (زياد الرحباني), one immediately mentions that he is the son of one of the most famous and beloved Arab artists of all time: Nouhad Haddad, known better as Fairouz. She, who captured the hearts and minds of millions with a divine and ethereal voice sung over perfectly crafted classical instrumentation, was married to one half of another Arabic music powerhouse, Assi of the Rahbani brothers.
With their work with Fairouz and several successful plays, the duo left an indelible mark on future Arabic popular music. In contrast with their sublime classics, Ziad gained prominence during the Lebanese Civil War for a unique brand of witty, sardonic, nihilistic, and deeply mocking theater, radio, and music. While he is now known mainly as a leftist revolutionary artist, his criticism evades easy political labels and markedly evolved through different periods of Lebanese history.
Music
Before delving into Ziad’s solo work, mentioning his collaborati
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