- Abed Azrie
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Name = Abed Azrie
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Background = solo_singer
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Born = 1945
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Genre =Arabic music
Occupation = Musician
Years_active = 1990s–present
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URL =Abed Azrie (born 1945), also written as Abed Azrié, is a
Syria n singer who performs Arab classical music, [cite web |url=http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/artist/content.artist/abed_azrie_38405
title=Abed Azrie profile |accessdate=2008-01-23 |work=Nat Geo Music |publisher=National Geographic ] although he claims to belong to no particular music tradition.cite book |title=Surviving Lamentations: Catastrophe, Lament, and Protest in the Afterlife |last=Linafelt |first=Tod |year=2000 |publisher=University of ChicagoPress |isbn=0226481905 |pages=p.31] In his work he sets ancient and modern Arabic texts to traditional instruments (such as theney ,kanun ,darbuka ,violin ,flute andlute ), andsynthesizer s. [cite news |first=Stephen |last=Holden |title= The Pop Life |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D8133BF933A15750C0A967958260 |work=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Company |date=1991-03-20 |accessdate=2008-01-23 ]He was born in
Aleppo , and after living for a time inBeirut moved toParis at the age of 22 where he studiedWestern classical music . While there he translated classical poetry, such as the Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh ", into French. [cite book |title=World Music: The Basics |last=Nidel |first=Richard |year=2005 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0415968003 |pages=p. 204] He has stated that he prefers to live in the West, saying in a 2000 interview that he has an "inability to work in the Arab countries, in which the way people live is still conditioned by halal and haram. Here I can produce contemporary art, I can work in freedom, and there is 'motion' around what I produce: journalism, concerts, programme…Nobody tells me to write a song for a specific political occasion." [cite news |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/492/cu2.htm |title=The francophone predicament |accessdate=2008-01-23 |first=Youssef |last=Rakha |date=2000-07-27 |work=Al-Ahram Weekly ]His music has been featured in the films "Al Leja", directed by Ryad Chaia, [cite news |first=Lawrence |last=van Gelder |title=An Unforgiving Landscape |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EFDE1E3AF932A35757C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print |work=
The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Company |date=1997-04-01 |accessdate=2008-01-23 ] and Elia Suleiman's "Chronicle of a Disappearance". [cite news |first=Maslin |last=Janet |title=In a Holy Land of Kitsch, Politics and Terrorism |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E0DD143BF931A15750C0A961958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FF%2FFestivals |work=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Company |date=1997-03-22 |accessdate=2008-01-23 ]Singer-songwriter
Jeff Buckley was a fan of Azrie's music, and two once had dinner. [cite journal |last=Farrar |first=Josh |date=1996-02-29 |title=Kingdom for a Kiss |journal=DoubleTake |url=http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/words/interviews/doubletake.html |accessdate= 2008-04-24 ]Discography
* 1990: "Aromates"
* 1994: "Epopée de Gilgamesh"
* 1996: "Lapis Lazuli"
* 1999: "Pour enfants seulement"
* 1999: "Omar Khayyam"
* 2001: "Venessia"
* 2006: "Suerte Live"
* 2007: "Chants d'amour et d'ivresse"References
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