Dialogue session at «Arab Heritage House»

Al-Abdan: The first Emirati singer was Youssef Naqi, and he appeared in the thirties

From the "Popular Tarab in the Emirates" session at the "Arab Heritage House".

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In an overview of the beginnings of the emergence of the most important pioneers of folk music in the Emirates, and tracing the earliest use of modern musical instruments, the Arab Heritage House hosted the Emirati researcher and artist Ali Al-Abdan in the "18th Sharjah Heritage Days" in a dialogue session moderated by the artist Muhammad Ghobashi, under the title "Popular Tarab" In the Emirates and its most important pioneer 1950 - 1970 ».

Al-Abdan said at the beginning of his speech: “What was prevalent in the Emirates in the past are folk art and not singing, because the music arrived in the Emirates from other regions, such as Bahrain, which was the base of music in the Gulf, and Yemen, which was a great incubator for ancient music and singing,” indicating that The first Emirati singer is Youssef Naqi, who appeared in the thirties of the last century.

Al-Abdan mentioned that the second pioneer of Tarab in the Emirates is the late artist Hareb Hassan, who learned popular singing and playing the oud in Bahrain, indicating that before that musical instruments were not used in the Emirates, and that Hassan did not deviate from Yemeni tunes and Bahraini bastas, but his star shone. In the forties, he is credited with singing the Emirati poem through his performance of “Habib Al Qalb” by the poet Majid Al Nuaimi, which is considered one of his most famous songs.

Al-Abdan confirmed that the artist Mohamed Abdel Salam was the first singer in Dubai, and the first to record a disc in the "Dubai Phone" company in the forties, indicating that he was the first Emirati singer to be mentioned on Radio Cairo, while Hareb Hassan was the first Emirati to sing on the BBC radio station. Arabic »in the sixties.

Talking about the pioneers of popular art does not go without mentioning the artist Ali bin Rogha, about whom Al-Abdan said that he used to sing in a white Bedouin accent, and that played an important role in the spread of his songs, most of which were on the maqam of Rast, but he succeeded in presenting the maqam of al-Bayati and maqam Boyhood, and cica.

Finally, Al-Abdan revealed in his speech the biography of the artist Muhammad Suhail, who was famous for his musical production and photography, and he composed a very rare maqam, "the original Sika".

Mohammed Abdul Salam is the first singer in Dubai, and the first to record a CD on "Dubai Phone".

Harib Hassan, the first Emirati to sing from BBC Arabic, in the 1960s.

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