Muhannad Muhsen

Ahla Al Mawawil (Best of Mawal)

• Lebt Bel Waket (I Played with TIme)
• Maksour Kalbi (My Heart is Broken)
• Shayel Hmoum (I Am Carrying Worries)
• Ya Sah Da'ami (My Tears' Cries)
• Amah Ya Ra'shet al Ashwak (The Thrill of Longing)
• Ya Ma Ta'abet Wa Daret (I Often Got Tired Looking After You)
• Ya Sah Metl Al Samak (Crying Like Fish)
• La Tkouli Tghayrat (Don't Tell Me I Changed)
• Tmanet (I Wished)

• Al Saber (Patience)
• Ya Habibi (My Love)
• Al Eshtyak (Longing)
• Oumi Al Shames (The Sun is My Mother)
• Ala Ma Tehwa (Who You Love)

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Music is usually classified according to its aesthetics, not its subject matter, but Hazaini (sad) music in Syria and Iraq is both a subject and a format simultaneously, calling for its own suitable musical instruments and voice timbres. In this quintessential sad music tape, we listen to Iraqi singer Muhannad Muhsen as he recites his pains. In the first half of the tape specifically, the oriental string instruments withdraw to secondary roles, leaving the stage for Muhannad Muhsen's trembling, oppressed voice that needs only simple appearances from instruments to accompany it. Muhannad Muhsen was born in Baghdad, and began singing in his childhood in 1981 after joining the Baghdad Children's Band. The first person to notice his voice was Professor Najm Abdullah, who was the band's director, through the program With Children on Baghdad Radio. He encouraged him to sing and composed a children's song for him in Classical Arabic titled My Bicycle. His official launch as a singer was in 1990, when he produced his first work, a song titled Al Jirah Awwal (First Wounds), then released his first music video Aziz Bas Bil Isim (Dear Only in Name). He performed numerous concerts in France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Germany, the United States, and Canada. He composed a song for the great artist Hatem Al Iraqi titled Thakarnakum (We Remembered You), in addition to his collaboration with artist Haitham Youssef on the duet Dhaya'na Al Hob (We Lost Love).