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| Picture credit score: Rima Rahbani |
First the details:
Extremely standard singer Elissa lately sang on stage a music. “Hanna el Sekran” (Hanna the drunk), altering the phrases “ysawer bint el jiran” (drawing the woman subsequent door) to “yzabit bit el jiran” (screw the woman subsequent door).
Cue the uproar.
Enter Rima Rahbani daughter of iconic singer Fairouz who herself had a model of that music (and considered one of its most famous interpretations of it). Who – in her common – fiery however typically trashy replies put the blame above and past Elissa on her personal cousin Oussama Rabhani (Oussama having organized the live performance the place the snafu occurred). She is by the way in which, not solely the daughter of Fairouz but additionally Assi Rahbani, one half of the super-song writing duo “Rahbani Brothers” (Assi and Mansour – Oussama being Mansour’s son).
Sure, I do know, fairly difficult.
Now Rima is up in arms that nobody ought to sing “her mom’s songs”. Which technically isn’t true. As a result of within the copyright legal guidelines when you pay the authorized charges to the writers/composers you truly can. Plus in sure instances, performing publicly a music you possibly can waive such rights.
The opposite drawback? Hanna el Sekran is definitely an Elias Rahbani composition (youthful brother of the Assi and Mansour). That means neither of his eldest brothers had something to do with it, and the primary model was within the voice of the late (nice) Melhem Barakat earlier than Fairouz put her stamp on it. I digress, however considered one of Fairouz’s songs I like finest – El Bosta – was initially a Joseph Sakr music (written by Fairouz’s son – legendary composer and author Ziad Rahbani for him (Sakr) to interpret in considered one of Ziad’s performs Nazl El Sourour).
Which brings us to – why is everybody forgetting that the music initially had nothing to do with both dad and mom of Rima Rahbani?
This doesn’t absolve Elissa. But additionally doesn’t Absolve Rima both.
The one redeeming issue? Rima simply printed an up to date photograph of her mom arranging a flower in a vase.
Swoon….
