A woven ceremony on the sites of sedition and amazement, presented by the Lebanese artist Jahida Wahba, the day before yesterday, at the “Mall of the Emirates” theater in Dubai, where the audience traveled with the Arab and Western tunes to the most important songs performed by Piave and Fayrouz, Umm Kulthum, Asmahan, Sabah and Dalida, when she collected Wahba at the ceremony A mixture of their songs, which they sing for man, love and earth, in addition to a group of her own songs.
A Moroccan night with songs in many languages, from Arabic to French and Spanish, at a ceremony titled "They are in the Sound of Melody ... From Piaf to Umm Kulthum with a Hard Voice and Gift", along with a special blend that mixed poetry and singing, during which the Lebanese artist was able to separate the audience from Everything that is going on in the outside world for about two hours.
A journey aboard the music and poetry presented by the “poet of sound” to the audience, as the theater was filled with her melodious voice and her strong throat, and she started her concert with the song “Star of Sobh” by the poet Talal Haider, moving from her to the song “Give me the flute and singing” to Fayrouz and the words of Gibran Khalil Gibran, to receive a poem after which "I love you two love" for Rabaa El Adawiya, before she sang it with her tunes, to enter the audience in a state of love and wandering with her words.
Wahba chose a group of songs of the late artist Sabah, including "Al-Dayaa, Ala Al-Dayaa", and the song "Ya Musafir, Waqf Al-Darb", so she returned the audience to the original Lebanese airspace with a different and special performance, and then moved on to singing in the French language. She presented Edith Piaf's song "No or nothing" In French and Arabic, and the song "The wheel of cabarets", and after Arabizing these songs, she succeeded in preserving the elegance and magic of the word in parallel with the melody. Not only did Heba sing in French, but she accompanied the audience to the Spanish language with the song "Thank you for life" by the artist Mercedes Sosa.
As for the second part of the concert, it had a class for the original song, so it started with the song "Ya Habibi Come Al-Haqni" by the artist Asmahan, then she performed the song "You are my life" by Umm Kulthum, to mix it with the song "Amal My Life", then return the audience to the beginning of "You are my life" »With a mixture of music and a distinguished performance that stunned the audience, and concluded the ceremony with the song« Beirut », which is distinguished by its melody belonging to the Lebanese heritage. As for poetry and the word, they had the overwhelming presence besides the songs, as the stage in relation to a gift exceeds the boundaries of music and singing, and it is not complete except by poetry, so she intends to present a set of poems, and she recited some of her collection “Blue and Al Hud Hud .. Love in Facebook”, next to her recitation Some of the poems before she performed singing on the theaters with the support of musical instruments and solo playing sometimes with the law and sometimes with violin, especially as she has a special ability to make the listener feel particularly euphoric in listening to her poetry.
We thanked the organizers of the concert for making this meeting available on the stage, despite the dullness of the daily routine in which we live, as well as the anxiety we feel and our hands towards our health and our future, trying to travel on board the songs to the big eastern and western singers. On the program of the concert and its presentation at the Mall of the Emirates, she told «Emarat Al Youm’: “The main cooperation was with Art for the First, and I came to many theaters in the Emirates, and cooperated with the Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development in the Emirates, cultural destinations Important, but this time I would like the concert to be in a place available to people, in order to witness a large number of attendees, and this program is being shown for the first time in the Emirates (from Piaf to Umm Kulthum), and the oldest of the Arab singers. ” Wehbeh mentioned that she presents Piaf in French and Arabic, along with Spanish with Mercedes Sosa, and the special works she composed with a focus on poets who presented their songs as dreams of Mostaghanemi and Fourth of Adawiya. She considered that the art she presents "is classified as elitist, where in the lyric scene there are a lot of styles, including very fast songs, and it can be said (sound), but when people like to listen to what addresses the conscience and not the bodies, they tend to hear what we offer."
Artistic biography
The Lebanese artist Jahida Wehbe has a high experience in music and theater, and she is famous for presenting the poems she composed by herself, as she sang for many poets. She loves poetry and the word, and showed her passion for this issue of carrying the title "Blue and the Hoopoe ... Love in Facebook", in which she mixed her feelings with singing and the vibrations of her voice and the words that touch the heart.
"When people like to listen to what addresses conscience, not bodies ... they tend to hear what we offer."