Ibrahim Saker

Songs Performed in Brazil

• Ya Hbab Galbi w Jumlat Lkhllan (My Loves and All Friends)
• Qitar Al Hob Mawal (Love Train)
• Ento Jbalkon Alqamar Mawal (Your Mountains On the Moon)
• Jina (We Came) on Oud
• Tallat Mnl Shubbak Mawal (She Appeared From the Window)
• Hobbak Asal (Your Love is Sweet)

• Hal Ghennieh Tatouka (This Song is Silly)
• Btelbalek Aktar Mnni (It Suits You More Than Me)
• Kberna Bghamdat Ein (We Grew Up in the Blink Of An Eye)
• Dazzetlak Mahrama (I Gave You a Tissue)

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This cassette seems as if it was recorded on the Syrian-Lebanese border, as influences from Syrian traditional music and mawals emerge for a moment, before being overtaken the next moment by 1970s Lebanese pop and even features of zajal singing style. It's an easy-listening tape, distinguished by Ibrahim Saker's beautiful voice that masterfully handles high ranges, accompanied by a mellow oud and a colorful keyboard that take turns regularly serenading listeners. Ibrahim Saker is a shaabi poet, singer, and composer born in Jableh, Syria in 1938. He began his artistic activity since childhood, mastering the nay, mizmar, rababa, and then the oud. His fame began in the early 1970s through the radio program Sahrat Al Askar (Military Evening). He became one of the pioneers of shaabi music along the Syrian coast specifically and in Syria generally. He has made attempts at renewing Syrian folklore alongside releases and performances in ataba and zajal dialogues, and collaborations with Syrian poets and composers such as Ahmad Ibrahim Said, Fouad Haidar, Midhat Ahmad, Aziz Ammar, and others. He remains active today from his exile in Germany on social media, where he is followed by about seventy thousand listeners on Facebook who eagerly receive his posts.