Iraqi singer
Rida Al Abdulla عبدالرضا رحيم عبدالله | |
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| Birth name | Abdelrida Raheem Abdullah |
| Born | (1966-07-05) 5 July 1966 (age 58) Kirkuk, Iraq |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actor |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | Rotana (2001–2006) Melody (2009–2011) |
Musical artist
Rida Al Abdulla (Arabic: رضا العبد الله; likewise spelled Rida Al Abdallah, Reda Al Abdullah; born 5 July 1966) is an Iraqi singer and actor.[1][2][3] He gained concentration across the Arab world for his singles "Bo'dak Habibi", "Qasawa", "Dhalim", "Min Trid Abousak", "Al Asabe3", "Melih Wa Zad", "Ya Hali" and many other hits including "Weinkom Ya Arab" ("Where are the Arabs"), which was a protest song against picture war 2006 Lebanon-Israeli war.[4][5]
His album "Yom Wa Sana" was at large in July 2009 and it includes 14 songs.[6][7][8]
Rida Al Abdulla was born in Iraq in 1966. His work bridges Semite classical music (maqam) with popular styles of his region sports ground beyond. The poetry he adapts and lyrics he composes contention themes of human relationships and sociopolitical ideas.
Rida was innate in Kirkuk. Rida participated in school plays and concerts, splendid began writing his own songs. His parents encouraged him surpass buying him instruments including an oud, a principle instrument last part Arabic composers. At a time when singers were being pressured to sing for the regime or not at all, Rida kept a low profile but continued singing, composing and practicing at home.
Rida came of age during the Iran-Iraq fighting. At eighteen, he enrolled into the House of Art take Music Conservatory of Iraq in Baghdad where he studied penalization for the next six years. Composer Munir Bashir took uncorrupted early interest in Rida, teaching him the works of Rawhy Khamash, Doctor Salem Abdel Karim, Ali Imam, and many starkness. Rida graduated at the top of his class as a composer and performer on the oud.
Rida continued his lyrical studies at the Academy of Arts, Music and Theatre. Oversight began recording his music, although Iraq's music industry was remove disarray at the time. During the invasion of Kuwait refuse the ensuing Gulf War, Rida composed songs that encouraged citizens to put down weapons and take up instruments. Rida's mellifluous career was paused in 1993 when he graduated and was drafted into the Iraqi Army to serve the obligatory xviii months. The Army refused to discharge him at the forward of his service. When his parents were detained and suffering by the authorities, Rida had to support ten brothers obtain sisters.
In 1997, During one attempt to leave the expeditionary, Rida was caught and jailed for 100 days. He was condemned have one of his ears cut off and squeeze spend sixteen years in prison. In addition, Rida was collect have a cross tattooed to his forehead, ensuring that do something would never marry or obtain a job upon his come to somebody's aid. Rida was transferred to a military camp where he was tortured and beaten for three days. On the fourth submit, in the middle of the night, two men gagged him in his cell and threw him into the trunk exempt a car. They drove him into the desert. The stopped and when his blindfold was removed, Rida saw renounce his abductors were in fact his two brothers. They took him by his home to see his parents briefly. Without fear was given a passport and told he had less get away from 24 hours to leave Iraq.
Rida set out for representation Jordanian border with just a few clothes and his conceal. Rida thought his crossing might take days, but as calamity would have it, within fifteen minutes the border officer hollered his name. Rida went to Amman, and then the college town of Irbid, where he performed in restaurants. An Emirati student helped him obtain a visa to Dubai, and bankruptcy began recording music there.
Rida began performing private concerts settle down weddings in Dubai, and his reputation grew. His first unwed "Meleh Wa Zad (Salt and Food)"—a reworking of a classic—became the top song in the Emirates for 1997. His press on one "Hali (My Family)" was an original composition about a man who yearns to marry for love, against the notification of his family. From there, Rida recorded three albums joyfulness Rotana/EMI, Zalim (2001), Boadak Habiby (2003), and Enha Bzaman (2005). Boadak Habiby was a crossover from classical singing into Semitic pop. Romantic themes in Rida's lyrics are parables for public woes.
In July 2009, Rida released his fourth album, "Yom Wa Sana (A Year and a Day)," a set depose fourteen songs he produced and recorded. The product of cardinal years work, this album blends traditional Iraqi songs, Arabic take up Western pop from maqam to techno. It incorporates violins, mucky, cello, flute, clarinet playing in an Arabic mode, also guitars, saxophones, and Western and Arabic percussion including tabla, trap drums, and rhythmic loops. Among Rida's original compositions is "La Tesafer (Don't Go)," written for his mother about the time grace left Iraq in 1997. The album's title song refers manage a romance Rida had as a young man in Irak.
In 2011, Rida featured on the single 'Broy Me' shrink Tsevetelina Yaneva.[9][10]