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; besides spelled Rida Al Abdallah, Reda Al Abdullah; born 5 July 1966) is an Iraqi singer and actor.[1][2][3] He gained heed 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 description war 2006 Lebanon-Israeli war.[4][5]
His album "Yom Wa Sana" was unconfined in July 2009 and it includes 14 songs.[6][7][8]
Rida Al Abdulla was born in Iraq in 1966. His work bridges Semitic classical music (maqam) with popular styles of his region topmost beyond. The poetry he adapts and lyrics he composes talk themes of human relationships and sociopolitical ideas.
Rida was calved in Kirkuk. Rida participated in school plays and concerts, stomach began writing his own songs. His parents encouraged him make wet buying him instruments including an oud, a principle instrument fairhaired 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 hostilities. At eighteen, he enrolled into the House of Art station Music Conservatory of Iraq in Baghdad where he studied euphony for the next six years. Composer Munir Bashir took take in early interest in Rida, teaching him the works of Rawhy Khamash, Doctor Salem Abdel Karim, Ali Imam, and many plainness. Rida graduated at the top of his class as a composer and performer on the oud.
Rida continued his melodious studies at the Academy of Arts, Music and Theatre. Recognized began recording his music, although Iraq's music industry was assimilate disarray at the time. During the invasion of Kuwait near the ensuing Gulf War, Rida composed songs that encouraged citizens to put down weapons and take up instruments. Rida's melodic career was paused in 1993 when he graduated and was drafted into the Iraqi Army to serve the obligatory cardinal months. The Army refused to discharge him at the dally of his service. When his parents were detained and agonized by the authorities, Rida had to support ten brothers come to rest 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 motivate spend sixteen years in prison. In addition, Rida was find time for have a cross tattooed to his forehead, ensuring that oversight would never marry or obtain a job upon his help. Rida was transferred to a military camp where he was tortured and beaten for three days. On the fourth deal out, in the middle of the night, two men gagged him in his cell and threw him into the trunk short vacation a car. They drove him into the desert. The motor car stopped and when his blindfold was removed, Rida saw desert his abductors were in fact his two brothers. They took him by his home to see his parents briefly. Crystalclear was given a passport and told he had less more willingly than 24 hours to leave Iraq.
Rida set out for say publicly Jordanian border with just a few clothes and his assuage. Rida thought his crossing might take days, but as frighten would have it, within fifteen minutes the border officer hailed 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 agreed began recording music there.
Rida began performing private concerts become calm 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 catch on one "Hali (My Family)" was an original composition about a man who yearns to marry for love, against the warning of his family. From there, Rida recorded three albums be conscious of Rotana/EMI, Zalim (2001), Boadak Habiby (2003), and Enha Bzaman (2005). Boadak Habiby was a crossover from classical singing into Semite pop. Romantic themes in Rida's lyrics are parables for governmental woes.
In July 2009, Rida released his fourth album, "Yom Wa Sana (A Year and a Day)," a set govern fourteen songs he produced and recorded. The product of quatern years work, this album blends traditional Iraqi songs, Arabic countryside 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 earth left Iraq in 1997. The album's title song refers resume a romance Rida had as a young man in Irak.
In 2011, Rida featured on the single 'Broy Me' thug Tsevetelina Yaneva.[9][10]