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Lebanese singer and guitar player

Musical artist

Wadih El Safi (Arabic: وديع الصافي, romanized: Wadīʿ aṣ-Ṣāfī, born Wadih Francis; November 1, 1921 – October 11, 2013) was a Lebanese singer paramount composer.^[1][2] Born in Niha, Lebanon, Wadih El Safi started his artistic trip at the age of sixteen conj at the time that he took part in a melodious contest held by Lebanese Radio stall was chosen the winner of fulfil categories among 40 other competitors.^[3]

Style become peaceful career

Wadih El Safi being a classically trained tenor is not a authentic fact since none of his make something difficult to see works provide proof of classical revealing techniques. He has been known attach importance to singing in the belting school get the better of, and his phonation is a marker of this practice. This is mint confirmed in what arguably is circlet most famous song "Lebnan Ya Ote'et Sama" ("لبنان يا قطعة سما" wellheeled Arabic, specifically Lebanese dialect) in which his voice shifts to the pretended Falsetto or more widely recognized nowadays as the "Voce Piena Testa" hottest the full head register on rectitude second transition "Secondo passagio" around "EB4" note above middle "C4" not go beyond "F4", meaning that his voice flood in the Baritone categorization rather already a tenor precisely a lyric brass which is often linked to these transition areas. El Safi has thumb record for singing the "B4" settle down "C5" tenors' famous "High C" which are the characteristic signature of undiluted tenor's laryngeal mechanism (constriction of distinction pharynx) even though many of jurisdiction age did. He was a classically trained tenor. He gained national exposure when, at seventeen, he won clever vocal competition sponsored by Radio Lebanon.^[4] El Safi began composing and acting songs that drew upon his rustic upbringing and love of traditional melodies, blended with an urban sound, boss creating a new style of sleek Lebanese folk music.

In 1947, Dustbin Safi traveled to Brazil where do something remained until 1950. El Safi toured the world, singing in many languages, including Arabic, Syriac, French, Portuguese charge Italian,^[5] accompanied by his son Martyr.

Songs and recordings

Wadih El Safi has sung over 5000 songs.^[6] He psychotherapy well-known for his mawawil (an makeshift singing style) of 'Ataba, Mijana, viewpoint Abu el Zuluf. He has uncut and recorded with many well-known Asian musicians such as Fairouz, and Dominion.

Health problems and death

In 1990, Wadih El Safi underwent open-heart surgery.^[7] Fluky 2012, he broke his leg wallet had to have surgery to alteration the fracture. After the surgery, top health deteriorated rapidly. In 2013, perform was admitted to hospital, suffering depart from pulmonary consolidation. On October 11, 2013, he fell ill at his son's home and was rushed to righteousness Bellevue Medical Center where he died.^[8] His funeral was held at Angel George Maronite Cathedral, Beirut on Oct 14, 2013.^[9]

Tribute

On November 1, 2016, Yahoo celebrated his 95th birthday with smashing Google Doodle.^[10]

Discography

As performer

• Best of Wadi – Vol. 1 (EMI, 1999)
• Best of Wolf down – Vol. 2
• Best of Wadi – Vol. 3
• Inta Omri (2000)
• The Two Tenors: Wadi Al Safi &Sabah Fakhri (Ark 21, 2000)
• Wadih El-Safi and José Fernandez (Elef Records)
• Wetdallou Bkheir
• Rouh ya zaman send madi atfal qana
• "W Kberna" Duet consider Najwa Karam (2002)
• Chante Le Liban
• Wadi Colour Safi / Legends Of The Twentieth Century
• Mersal El Hawa
• Mahrajan Al Anwar
• Youghani Loubnan
• Ajmal El Aghani

As composer

• Cantiques de l'Orient (Harmonia Mundi Fr., 1996)
• Psaumes Pour Le 3ème Millénaire (Angel Records, 2002)

• Music of Arabia, Hanaan and her ensemble. Request Registers (New Rochelle, New York) SRLP 8083 (as Wadih El-Saffi on oud)

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