Radwan Sarmini

Afrah Halab (Aleppo Weddings)

• Kam Nob Ahwak (The Levels of My Love)
• Skabtelak Dame'i Bel Kas (I Shed My Tears For You)
• Jawazoha Khtifeh (They Forced You Into Getting Married)
• Salem (Salem)

• Lmma Akhadoha (When They Took Her)
• Wehiat Eini (I Swear With My Eyes)
• Saber Ayoub (Ayoub's Patience)
• Mashi Ma'a El Daher (Living Through the Days)
• Oyounek Min El Alama (Who Taught You!)

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This cassette features a wedding celebration in Aleppo from the 1980s, performed by the Aleppine singer Radwan Sarmini. On the first side, Sarmini delivers his most famous song, "Skabtelak Dame’i Bel Kas (I Shed My Tears For You)," which he recorded in 1986 and performed on Aleppo Radio. This song established him as a sought-after artist at weddings, parties, and restaurants between Aleppo and Damascus in years that followed. His passionate and skillful performance of the song evokes the style of a young Sabah Fakhri. Radwan Sarmini’s career ended tragically in 1990 when he was killed by a bullet to the head in his home in the Zebdiyeh neighborhood of Aleppo. His killer was never identified. Radwan was still in his youth at the age of 37, and his early death left an impact on the music scene in Aleppo. It especially affected his older brother, singer Mustafa Sarmini, who mourned him with dedicated mawals such as "Min Yom Faqad Al-Wilf (Since the Day I Lost My Love)" and "Rah Al-Nadim Ya Aini (My Companion Departed, Oh My Eye)."