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| Fortwenster Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4976 days ago 24 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 1 of 14 03 December 2011 at 4:48pm | IP Logged |
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I started learning Arabic a few months ago, and was wondering:
What Arabic music do yall who know or are learning it listen to? What's your favorite song, whos your favrit singer? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ljones29 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4788 days ago 35 posts - 59 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Arabic (Written), Greek | Message 3 of 14 03 December 2011 at 7:13pm | IP Logged |
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My favorite is Nancy Ajram. She is Lebanese but sings in the Egyptian dialect. She's a
pop singer and her songs are really accessible and fun. Listen to "Ebn el geran" - so cute! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Humdereel Octoglot Groupie United States Joined 4969 days ago 90 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written), Turkish, Persian, Urdu Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 14 03 December 2011 at 7:59pm | IP Logged |
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Lately, I've been loving Tomorrow/Bokra, which involves several Arabic singers. I think it's a truly beautiful song.
I also like the song Khally Bokra Ahla by Shady Hamza and Yousra. It's the song used for the Coca-Cola commercials and I love the cheerfulness of it. In general, some of my favorite singers are Amr Diab, Samira Said, Nassif Zeitoun, Majida El-Roumi, such as E'tazalt El Gharam, Asmaa Lmnawar, and several more. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5406 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 5 of 14 04 December 2011 at 3:34am | IP Logged |
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There's a lot of great, catchy Arab pop music out there.
I'm not going to go listing individual songs, but here are some artists you might want to check out: Amr Diab (عمرو دياب) Elissa (إليسا) Fairuz (فيروز) Nancy Ajram (نانسي عجرم) Nawal Al Zoghbi (نوال الزغبي) Sherine (شيرين) All of these singers have released albums within the past three years (most of them in 2010), the albums of which topped music charts all across the Arab world. So if you want to listen to what's "popular" among Arab youth, these would be good artists to start with. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| SmilingStraw Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4901 days ago 35 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 14 04 December 2011 at 7:30pm | IP Logged |
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I like Tamer Hosny and Fairuz, as well as Amr Diab and Latifa. But I don't know what they're saying yet. :P
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| KSAKSA Groupie Australia Joined 5136 days ago 65 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Gulf) | Message 7 of 14 05 December 2011 at 11:13am | IP Logged |
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There is a tonne of great Arab music out there. All the above are good (I admit, I love Nancy - she's one of my absolute favourites - start with Ah wa nos).
Check out too: Rashed Al Majed (faaaabulous), Mohammed Mounir (love his voice), Pascale Machaalani, Warda and Mohammed Abdou. Most of all, though, you must get hold of Um Koulthoum...these will be very old recordings, not super hi fi, but the emotion...and if you have been to Egypt or read any cultural books/magazines, for sure you will have already heard of this magnificent singer. Oh, if you are interested in rap there's a few of those bands too - MTM are a bit long in the tooth now but fun videos. An incredible site for lyrics: http://www.arabicmusictranslation.com Edited by KSAKSA on 05 December 2011 at 11:16am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ljones29 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4788 days ago 35 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Arabic (Written), Greek | Message 8 of 14 05 December 2011 at 12:02pm | IP Logged |
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Myriam Fares is good too! Almost forgot her. She is Lebanese but sings mostly in
Egyptian too. Try Ha'aliq Rahtak. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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