Najib Al-Sarraj

Most Beautiful Songs

• Shada Qalbi W Ghanna Al 'Andalib (Ensnared My Heart and Sang the Nightingale)
• Khalas Nawet Ansak (I've Decided to Forget You)
• Soud 'Oyounik Soud (Your Eyes Are Black, Black)
• Ahbbtuki Adhhat Omniyati (Loving You Became My Wish)

• Fouad Ghazi - Ya Ahl Allah Khtai (Oh People of God, Mercy)
• Abd Al Kafi Ahmad - Khod 'Eyuni Yal Mahboub (ake My Eyes, Oh Beloved)
• Asali Asali Asaliya (Hazel, Hazel, Oh Hazel)
• Ayam Zamani Al Helwa Fen (Where Are the Days of My Sweet Past?)
• Ehkena Shu Ehkina (Oh, How Much We Talked)

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A compilation cassette featuring classic recordings from the repertoire of Syrian artist Najib al-Sarraj. Najib Al-Sarraj (1923-2003) was a Hama born Syrian singer, musician and composer famous for his popular folk songs. He began his journey by playing the Oud, and studied the principles of musical notation in Damascus. His keen interest in the modern song (monologue) and the poem, eventually led him to become one of the most brilliant Syrian composers of the modern romantic poem. With his 1958 composition The House of the Beloved, he was considered the first to compose music from a poem by Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani. Al-Sarraj composed for a number of male and female singers, most notably: Mary Gibran, Maha Al-Jabri and Yassin Mahmoud. He recorded songs for the Near East Broadcasting Station, New York based Arab-American label Alamphon, and later, in 1952, for Voice of the Arabs radio in Cairo. He also produced and acted in the 1972 Syrian film Al Musafer. Mohammed Abdel Wahhab once described Al-Sarraj as ‘Syria's Abdel Wahhab.’