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| Bassem Feghali impersonating each Samira Toufic and Sabah on The Stage (LBC) |
Properly, this has been sitting on my chest for some time. In 1986 our late nationwide diva Sabah launched her hit single “Ayyam El Loulou” written by the late Elie Choueiri. Not solely that, she adopted the hit with a movie as effectively, staring her and the late Karim Abou Chacra (right here). Whereas there have been many “variations” to this story not the late of which is the one informed by feminine impersonator Bassem Feghali just lately in “The Stage” which is broadcast on LBC and hosted by Carla Haddad (and on account of a directing trick he impersonated each divas singing the hit similtaneously the picture above reveals), the unique story goes like this:
Elie Choueiri first offered the tune to Samira Toufic. This being the struggle, the artists couldn’t simply go to studios and file and launch new singles or albums or no matter. So Toufic took her time. Choueiri ended up promoting the tune to Sabah, who promptly recorded it and launched it. Toufic began singing the tune reside in her personal repertoire (curiously, the primary occasion of Toufic releasing the tune formally was 1994 even when by then it was a staple in her live shows). So in that summer time – there was the identical hit by two totally different singers. Each had their truthful of success thoughts you.
Someday within the 90s, each singers had been reunited in a TeleLiban program (if I’m not mistaken with Abdel Ghani Tlais), and he asks them level clean concerning the debacle. Toufic merely says:
انا شتريتا بالاول وما سجلتا وكانت ايام حرب العالم بدها تعيش
(I purchased it first and didn’t file it, and these struggle instances and other people wanted to reside (that means become profitable – pointing to Choueiri promoting the tune to each of her, and Sabah))
To which the Sabah retorted with:
ايه بس انا بحبها بصوتك اكتر
(Sure however I find it irresistible in your voice greater than in mine)
Significantly, what ought to have been main drama, noticed the 2 artists – who on the time had been nonetheless making new music – as an alternative of pulling one another’s chignons, they merely dismissed the entire incident.
If each singers took the highroad about it, I keep in mind a unique story when Dominique Hourani launched her tune “Wawa Ah” (booboo too sizzling) adopted very carefully by Haifa Wehbe releasing “El wawa” (the boobou), each singers went right into a mediatic struggle concerning the time period and actually went all out berating the opposite. When to start with it was not even the identical tune. Which is why the Samira Toufic/Sabah problem nonetheless impressed me of how they settled issues and moved on, demonstrating how a lot of nice women they had been.
