Najib Al Sarraj

Most Beautiful Songs

• Ahbabtk (I Loved You)
• O'atik (I'll Give You)
• Zad 'Alayna (It Has Increased Upon Us)

• Hamlona 'Abaa Al Hawa (We Have Carried the Burden of Love)
• Fawq Al Nakhil (Above the Palm Trees)
• Iskaba Ya Domo'a Al 'Ain (Pour, Oh Tears of the Eye)
• Lish Al Z'al Ya Khala (Why Are You Sad, My Aunt?)
• 'Ala Naghm Al Oud (To the Tune of the Oud)
• Mousiqa Al Qamar (Moon Music)

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Recordings featuring Syrian artist Najib Al-Sarraj accompanied by oud. 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.’