Category: Music

Lara Fabian : A Wonderful Life

These past couple of days i’ve been listening to Lara Fabian’s second english album A Wonderful Life, and WOW, it’s simply breathtaking.

Lara’s voice is one of the best female voices out there, and she’s been belting out the most amazing ballads and songs in both English and French.

I became a fan ever since the first song I heard by her, which was “Je T’Aime”.

She has perfect control over her powerful voice and a beautiful taste in music.

This album is another masterpiece in her collection of great works, a true musical delight for the ear.

My favourites songs on this album are: Unbreakable, Conquered, I Guess I loved You, I Am.

I totally recommend this album to everyone who is into this type of music.

Sami Yusuf

Sami Yusuf

Yesterday, while at our friends’ place, we were introduced to Sami Yusuf, a British Muslim singer whose song “Al Mu’allem” (The Teacher) has been playing on the arabic Melody music channel.

It’s really a great song in both English and Arabic in which he sings about the Prophet Muhammad PBUH and Islam. The music and lyrics are so beautiful and his voice is so soothing.

Sami Yusuf was born on July 1980. He was born into a musical family of Azeri origin and thus music played an integral part in his life.

Sami is also a devout practicing British Muslim who sees songs as a means of promoting the message of Islam and encouraging the youth to be proud of their religion and identity.

I think what he’s doing is really great and I wish more and more people would try to follow.
It’s a really good way to promote the true peaceful message of Islam and give the Muslim world their pride in their religion back.

For more info on Sami Yusuf and his music, check out his official site.

To buy his first album, click here.

Tina Arena’s Greatest Hits 1994-2004

Greatest Hits 1994-2004Tina Arena, my all time favourite female singer and the highest selling Australian female artist ever, will be releasing a Greatest Hits album on October 18th.

It’s packed with all her hits throughout the past ten years, from “Chains” to “Sorrento Moon” to “Burn” to “If I Was A River” to “I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You” to “Symphony of Life”.
It also includes two new songs: “Italian Love Song” and “Take Me Apart”.

It actually will be a double cd with the second CD containing the songs she recorded in in French and Italian.

I also hear a Greatest Hits DVD is on the way with it, so that’s so cool.

Anyone who calls themself a music fan should get this album as soon as it’s out because Tina Arena simply rocks big time!

If anyone is interested in more Tina Arena news, you can always check out my Tina Arena website.

What Are We Fighting For?

What will I tell my daughter?
What will you tell your son?
Where were all the doves?
That we were nothing but a shadow,
a faceless generation devoid of love?

The crucifix ain’t no baseball bat
Tell me what kind of God is that?
Ain’t nothing more godless than a war
So what are we fightin’ for?

What are we fightin’ for?

[Performed by: Live]

Sonia M’barek Concert

Last night we had the great pleasure of attending Sonia M’barek’s concert in the Hammamet Festival.
We got invitations to the concert through my aunt, whose husband Hammadi Ben Othman composed most of Sonia’s new songs and who was leading the orchestra at the concert.

Sonia M’barek isn’t really well known outside of Tunisia, but she sure as hell should be.
She’s one of the greatest Arab women singers of our time. I actually put her up there with people like Majda El Roumi and Feirooz.

Attending her concert yesterday was truly a great pleasure.
The lyrics were wonderful, the music magical and her voice was so beautiful, pure and strong.
Listening to people like this performing lyrics like this to music like this is really what ears were created for.

She’s very classy, and her audience are tasteful classy people too.
The amphitheatre wasn’t packed like it would be in other concerts for pop artists, but the people who were there were real music lovers and people who appreciated true art.

She doesn’t have to strip down to as little clothes as possible or dance around like a mad person to capture her audiences’ attention. Her amazing voice, awesome live performance, high class and pure un-plastified beauty are enough to do that and lift her audience to the skies she’s soaring to with her performance.

As I already mentioned, the music was great. It was Arabic music that certainly showed the Tunisian flavor in it and some of it’s Andalusian origins.
The lyrics were beautiful too, most of them written by the Tunisian poet Mohamed Boudheena. The concert was dedicated to his soul as he passed away earlier this year.

To not make it any longer. The concert was super great, we truly enjoyed it and had so much fun. I’m buying her album as soon as I can. And I advise anyone who really appreciates great music to check her out. She truly rocks big time.
She is undoubtedly THE Tunisian Diva.

Delta Goodrem: Innocent Eyes

I heard about Delta Goodrem quite a long time ago as I’m really interested in the Australian music scene.
But other than her single “Born To Try”, I didn’t really get to hear much of stuff.

Anyway, I changed that this weekend by buying her album “Innocent Eyes”.
It’s always a risk when you buy an album and all you’ve heard is one single off it. But here’s a rule I have, if it’s someone from Australia, Ireland or Sweden, just go on and buy the album, it’ll be great for sure.

And well, my rule worked again 🙂
The album is one of the greatest I’ve heard lately.
This girl is truly talented, her voice is amazing and the songs she has chosen for her debut album are beautiful both lyrics-wise and music-wise.

My favourite songs after the first hear are: “Innocent Eyes”, “Not Me, Not I” and “Throw It Away”.

I truly recommend this cd to anyone who enjoys really good music.

Amr Diab Concert

Amr Diab Live

We just got back home after a wonderful night out.

We attended the Amr Diab concert in the Festival of Carthage.
It’s been a long time ever since I went to a concert in the great Carthage amphitheatre, maybe ever since my childhood actually. And as for my wife, this is her first time there.

It’s also the first time I attend an Amr Diab concert, my wife’s second time.
And well, to say the truth, even though I love the guy’s songs, I wasn’t expecting much because of all the bad stuff I’ve heard about him performing live. According to what everyone says, I went in expecting some great songs but a really bad live voice.

And well, fortunately, my expectations were wrong.
The guy rocked live! Yes, he truly and absolutely rocked.
He truly out-did himself and I loved the songs even more than from the album.
The selection of songs for the concert was perfect, although I wish he would have just added “Awwedoony” to the list, one of my faves.
He sang, played the piano, played the keyboards, some percussion instruments and simply was great.
The climax of the concert came when he launched into his new single “Leeli Nhari”. Everyone went mad, and it seemed everyone but my wife and I knew all the lyrics.

Amr Diab was the only Arab singer I used to listen to and buy albums for. His stuff is really good, he’s an artist, and very professional.
And today after being at a concert of his, I’m more a fan than ever before.

I really enjoyed the concert a lot. It was so much fun.

After the concert, we were starving, so we thought we’d pass by this new place called Abu El Abed, a Lebanese fast food restaurant in Les Berges du Lac. We had some shawarmas which had this special middle eastern taste to them and which were really good.

After that, it was time for us to get home, and for me to get on here to write about it all 🙂

Nesma Abd El Aziz

Nesma Abd El Aziz

Now that’s talent!

Nesma Abd El Aziz is a great and very talented Egyptian xylophone player. She truly portrays how an often ignored musical intrument from the percussion family like the xylophone can do some truly beautiful wonders.

I first got to know her music sometime around last year when I caught the video for her first song called “Tico Tico”. It was so beautiful, cool, light, lifting and fun.
And yesterday, I came across her second video for her new song “Foga”. It’s as much fun and as great as the first one.

I think it’s great to have people like her in the Arab music scene, people who add style, class and amazing talent.

It’s good to come across someone like this in between all the rubbish there is in the music industry these days. It gives hope.

I truly enjoy her music and will be hunting her material down. And I recommend that anyone who loves music check her stuff out too. You’ll surely love it.