The Qatari artist, Fahd Al-Kubaisi, won the Hollywood Music and Media Award as the best international artist, for the song "Yama I told you", the words of the poet Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Thani, and composed by Abdullah Al-Mannai.

The Hollywood Music and Media Award is presented by the "Hollywood Music" Foundation, an art organization that honors original music in all its forms of visual media;

Including movies, TV, video games, commercials, music videos, and special programs.

The Hollywood Music Awards in the Media also celebrates independent and emerging artists and influential figures in the music world from around the world, for their creative and innovative contributions to the field.

The award comes within the framework of Al-Kubaisi's aim to bring Gulf and Arab music to the global level through his participation in the artistic campaign "I Present Music to the Western World", which aims to present Arab music with its well-known colors and famous instruments to the Western world without compromising its authentic identity.

Commenting on this victory, Al-Kubaisi said in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net that he is proud to have received this award as the best international artist for an Arab track for the year 2021, indicating that this award is one of the most important international awards in terms of music.

The Qatari artist confirmed that this coronation is the result of serious work that has continued for 4 years.

That is, since his nomination for the "Grammy" award, saying that he had prepared for this international award, in which there was great competition, and that he chose to present it with the song "Yama I Said You", which he produced in 2020.

A big plus

Al-Kubaisi believes that the Hollywood Music and Media Award is a great addition to him, and it is added to his biography and artistic career, as it is one of the largest international awards in the field of music, noting that it gives great importance to Gulf and Arab music.

He stressed that his participation in this award was not its first and last goal to win;

But the goal was to bring Gulf music to the world, explaining that he chose to apply for the award with the song "Yama I Told You" as it meets the competition conditions, the most important of which is that the song was released in 2020.

Al-Kubaisi described this song in his interview with Al-Jazeera Net, as it is a new station in his artistic life, saying, "This song deserves this success, whether it wins the award or not." Good melody, good lyrics and performance.

The Qatari artist, Fahd Al Kubaisi, believes that maintaining success is not easy, as it is easy for someone to reach the top.

But the difficulty is in preserving this summit, because this matter requires a lot of accuracy, perseverance and effort, and despite all of this no one guarantees permanent success.

But he has to do everything he can to maintain this success.

Global openness

Al-Kubaisi believes that Arab and Gulf music deserves to participate in all international competitions, and to reach musicians, artists and distributors all over the world.

Because it has words, music and melodies that deserve to reach them, and to develop and keep pace with the world, stressing that the development of Gulf music during the recent period came due to its openness to the world and its access to modern recording technology.

He added that recording studios in the Arab world now possess the latest technology and are identical to their counterparts in the Western world, stressing that Arab artists can present beautiful music, especially, and that Arab and Gulf music has a large space that makes it able to show artistic creativity.

Regarding his humanitarian activities, Al-Kubaisi affirmed his constant keenness from his artistic inception that one of his objectives be the pursuit of humanitarian activities.

To contribute to community service and human service in general, as he is an ambassador for the Qatar Red Crescent, and he has also made efforts in the field of combating human trafficking and human rights, and he held a concert in 2017, all of which was allocated to humanitarian efforts.

Al-Kubaisi had won the Golden Panther Award as the best Gulf artist, which is an international award given to the best singers, whose albums have achieved success at the level of sales in the world, and there were a number of pillars on which he was chosen for this award. His songs were also broadcast on American and Canadian radio, and he was chosen as a sponsor at the presentation of "Arab Music" within the activities of the annual global conference "Pacific Voice Conference", as well as his nomination for "Grammy" awards.