Najib Al Sarraj

Most Beautiful Songs

• Ahbbtuki Adhhat Omniyati (Loving You Became My Wish)
• 'Asali 'Asali 'Asaliya (Hazel, Hazel, Oh Hazel)
• O'younik Ya Lala (Your Eyes, Oh Lala)
• Ya Hilweh Mili Ma Mal El Hawa (O Beautiful One, My Heart, Love Did Not Betray Me)
• Makhlou' Ya Albi Makhlou' (Born, Oh My Heart is Born)
• Nsit Auhdak Bl Marra (You Forgot Your Promises, Once and For All)
• Ana Ya Hayati Kama Ta'rfin (I, My Life, As You Know)

• Ana Ya Hayati Kama Ta'rfin (I, My Life, As You Know)
• Jnene Nada Al Shaara (The Garden of Nada the Blonde)
• Shafton Bl Rouh Thanayaha (Lips With Folds That Touch the Soul)
• Qalbi Krmal Al Helween (My Heart is For the Sweet Ones)
• An'amu Mnak Dawa Al Qamar (I Get the Gracious Moonlight From You)

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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.’