He was able to sing ten hours straight on stage. Syrian singer Sabah Fakhri has died aged 88.
Posted
Update
Reading time : 1 min.
Syrian singer Sabah Fakhri, icon of the Aleppine song and famous throughout the Arab world, died in Damascus at the age of 88, his son told AFP on Tuesday (November 2nd).
“His heart stopped beating. He left us”, announced Anas Fakhri, adding however that his father was “a legend of Aleppo and Syria”, and “legends do not die”.
Born in Aleppo (north-west), the birthplace of song in Syria, Sabah Fakhri has interpreted traditional songs with his powerful voice, especially “Andalusian mouwachahat” and the “qudud aleppins”.
A tireless singer, he was able to keep his audience in suspense for hours by tirelessly repeating the verses of classical or contemporary Arabic poems.
In 1968, he broke a record singing for ten straight hours on a tour of Caracas.