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Abdul Jabbar Al Draji

Tsawwar Ya Mahboubi (Imagine, My Lover)

SIDE A

  • Kan Yama Kan (Once Upon a Time)
  • Ana Wahdi (On My Own)
  • Ala Wein Ya Msafer (Where To, Traveller?)
  • Kul El Nas (All the People)
  • Ya Heif (Shame)
  • Mn Ya Balad (Who, Oh Country?)
  • Jai Tetassaf (Coming to Apologize)

SIDE B

  • Tsawwar Ya Mahboubi (Imagine, My Lover)
  • Nazel Ya Qitar el Shoq (Is the Nostalgia Train Arriving?)
  • La Ya Eini (No, My Eye)
  • B Oyounek Fitna (There's Temptation in Your Eyes)
  • Masmoua (Heard)
  • Rah Wilfi (My Love is Gone)
  • Shgoul Lil Nas (What Do I Tell People?)
  • Lmn Yaalqoun el Shame' (When They Hang Up the Candles)
  • Gultilha Ahibbek (I Told Her I love Her)
Ref No: 0022
Genres: attaba
Decade: 1990

Label

Shahba

Location Issued

Aleppo, Syria

Artist Origin

Baghdad, Iraq

More Info

Abdul-Jabbar Al-Daraji was born in Baghdad in 1936, where his artistic career began. He performed his first song on Iraqi state radio in 1959, which he also composed and wrote. He continued to sing and compose for himself and other artists throughout his career, which lasted until the early 2000s. Al-Daraji died in the Jordanian capital of Amman in 2015, leaving behind a great musical legacy that influenced and changed the shape of the modern Iraqi song.