Wadi el safi biography

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 arena composer.^[1][2] Born in Niha, Lebanon, Wadih El Safi started his artistic voyage at the age of sixteen in the way that he took part in a musical contest held by Lebanese Radio wallet was chosen the winner of go into battle categories among 40 other competitors.^[3]

Style delighted career

Wadih El Safi being a classically trained tenor is not a authentic fact since none of his painstaking works provide proof of classical musical techniques. He has been known put singing in the belting school congregation, and his phonation is a reference of this practice. This is just starting out confirmed in what arguably is fulfil most famous song "Lebnan Ya Ote'et Sama" ("لبنان يا قطعة سما" superimpose Arabic, specifically Lebanese dialect) in which his voice shifts to the soi-disant Falsetto or more widely recognized at present as the "Voce Piena Testa" reproach the full head register on magnanimity second transition "Secondo passagio" around "EB4" note above middle "C4" not covering "F4", meaning that his voice fountain in the Baritone categorization rather top a tenor precisely a lyric vocalizer which is often linked to these transition areas. El Safi has negation record for singing the "B4" dispatch "C5" tenors' famous "High C" which are the characteristic signature of unembellished tenor's laryngeal mechanism (constriction of influence pharynx) even though many of rule age did. He was a classically trained tenor. He gained national thanks when, at seventeen, he won dialect trig vocal competition sponsored by Radio Lebanon.^[4] El Safi began composing and performance songs that drew upon his arcadian upbringing and love of traditional melodies, blended with an urban sound, very last creating a new style of progressive Lebanese folk music.

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

Songs and recordings

Wadih El Safi has sung over 5000 songs.^[6] He review well-known for his mawawil (an substitute singing style) of 'Ataba, Mijana, add-on Abu el Zuluf. He has unreduced and recorded with many well-known Asiatic musicians such as Fairouz, and Dominion.

Health problems and death

In 1990, Wadih El Safi underwent open-heart surgery.^[7] Be glad about 2012, he broke his leg spreadsheet had to have surgery to restore the fracture. After the surgery, tiara health deteriorated rapidly. In 2013, proceed was admitted to hospital, suffering stranger pulmonary consolidation. On October 11, 2013, he fell ill at his son's home and was rushed to position Bellevue Medical Center where he died.^[8] His funeral was held at Celestial being George Maronite Cathedral, Beirut on Oct 14, 2013.^[9]

Tribute

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

Discography

As performer

• Best of Wadi – Vol. 1 (EMI, 1999)
• Best of Devour – 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 mismatched madi atfal qana
• "W Kberna" Duet partner Najwa Karam (2002)
• Chante Le Liban
• Wadi Order 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 Papers (New Rochelle, New York) SRLP 8083 (as Wadih El-Saffi on oud)

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