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Sabbou7a, Fairuz, Lebanon female top famous singers: Different characters and styles
Saba7 died a few weeks ago. Fairouz is still young of 77 years old.
You may read the biography of late Saba7: https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/sabah-jeanette-gergis-al-feghali-passed-away-in-lebanon-icon-and-diva-of-lebanese-and-arabic-music/
“While Fairuz represents Lebanon as it likes to imagine itself: transcendent, serious, beautiful, virginal, timeless, and poetic—Sabah represents a much more honest version of Lebanon: glamorous, colorful, tragic, obsessed with youth, funny, a little trashy, and lusty.
(Let’s not try hard to match Saba7 with this totally convoluted Lebanon)
It is the contradictory nature of Sabah that is inspiring to many: that she seemed to do what she wanted whenever she wanted and with whomever she wanted, the world be damned.
In fact, Sabah was so important to the Lebanese imaginary that her funeral mass was given by that country’s Maronite Patriarch.
There the Patriarch was—a sectarian, sexist, and conservative religious leader—solemnly praying for a woman who married and divorced 9 times, admitted to having affairs and “enjoying” many more men, and who didn’t care if those men were Christian or Muslim or purple, as long as she thought they were hot.
Even in death, Sabah forced the most reactionary elements of conservatism and sectarianism to listen and to take note of her.
She gave them no choice.
Her insistence on living her complicated and contradictory life and art openly and proudly inspired many, including myself” – Maya Mikdashi in Jadaliyya.
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