Yara Issa

The great Sudanese artist, Abdel Aziz Al Mubarak, died yesterday Sunday, at the age of 69, in a hospital in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after a struggle with diabetes and pneumonia.

The death of the late artist sparked a state of sadness among the Sudanese people, which appeared on social networking sites that were sunk in a wave of comments and tweets about the blessed, his artistic career, his morals and his place in Sudanese culture in particular and the Arab in general.

The Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdouk mourned the artist Abdel Aziz Al Mubarak, noting his great contributions to spreading the Sudanese song, and of being his ambassador through his travels and contributions.

For his part, the Sudanese Minister of Culture and Information Faisal Mohamed Saleh mourned the late artist, and considered him one of the artists who took an early interest in music and singing art, and described his contributions to developing the Sudanese song with richness.

Unsuccessful start
Abdulaziz Al-Mubarak was born in 1951 in the Al-Asheer neighborhood of Wad Medani, in the state of Al-Jazirah (Central Sudan), and since his early years he has been interested in music and singing.

His relative, the famous violinist Ahmed Al Mubarak, heard his voice, and encouraged him to travel to Khartoum and develop his artistic talent, to present his voice to the Sudanese Radio and Texts Committee in Omdurman, but the committee did not like the song "Les Ya My Heart" presented by Al Mubarak, so he tried again Others, a singer and composer was accepted on radio in 1974.

This step was a broad-based beginning in his artistic work, from which he was able to work in the building of television and theater, and gain many public relations that led to his meeting with the well-known musician Omar Al-Shaer who supported him with all his experiences.

Al-Mubarak learned to play the oud by his friend and classmate, the artist Ali Al-Saqeed, and his artistic activity began by imitating great artists, including Othman Hussein, Abdul Karim Al-Kabili, Muhammad Wardi, Al-Tayeb Abdullah, and others.

Professional career
As for the beginning of his professional artistic career, Al Mubarak has received great cooperation from some ancient Sudanese artists, the most prominent of whom was the good artist Abdullah Abdullah who composed and composed the song "Tareek Al Shouq" and presented it to him.

The late artist is considered one of the most important pioneers of the Sudanese song, as several songs were famous for him, most notably "The Sweetest Neighbor", "The Way of Longing" and "You Say No", while the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) produced some of his most beautiful works, including: " The sweetest eyes we want "," "Honey" and others. All of this contributed to the spread of the blessed songs to a large number of countries in the world such as the United States of America, Japan, Canada, Belgium and Germany.