Ali Dayoub
Al Hajar Al Abyad (The White Stone)
SIDE A
- Attaba
- Badda Ya Alam Badda
- Attaba
SIDE B
- Ya Helw Haram Alaik
- Arab Dabke - Abo Ljadayel
- Lasheel Hammi W Hammak
Label
Al Faiha'a
Sallama
Location Issued
Aleppo, Syria
Artist Origin
Hama, Syria
Credits
Sound Engineer: Yehia Al Tellawi Keyboards: Iyad Al Janeb Oud: Fouad Namera Percussion: Mazen Al Ahmad Drums: Suleiman Suleiman
More Info
Here we listen to a wedding celebration in the village of Al Hajar Al Abyad in rural Homs, performed by Hama-born singer Ali Dayoub accompanied by a wedding band. The cassette gives us a chance to hear a young Ali Dayoub, whose youthful image appears on the cassette cover, and we listen to his fresh, tender voice and extensive breath control as he performs demanding attaba and shaabi songs. Ali Dayoub rose in the Syrian shaabi music scene alongside the emergence and rise of the keyboard, establishing his colorful singing style based on accompanying flashy and loud keyboard lines, collaborating with many of Syria's prominent keyboard players, including Talal Al Da'our. He reached the peak of his fame during the period when the keyboard entered Syrian shaabi music, between the latter half of the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s, when he performed numerous private events and wedding celebrations across Syria and Lebanon.