Rachel SamochaAmnon Shiloh, מוזיקה רבת־פנים וזהויות, p. 484-485, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev – Studies, Multidisciplinary Journal of Israel Research, 2016 (1895–1955), known professionally as Fairuz al-Ḥalabiya ()Eyal Sagui Bizawe, בחזרה אל תור הזהב: לאן נעלמו כל היהודים שהצליחו כאמנים בארצות ערב?, Haaretz, 30 July 2015 or Fairuz Mamish (),فيروز الحلبية / فيروز ماميش, arab-zik.com was a Syrian singer, who was mainly active in Damascus, Beirut and Cairo. Lebanese singer Nouhad Haddad, known as Fairuz, adopted the stage name as a sign of admiration for her.
Biography She was born in Aleppo to a Jewish family, and resided in Al Jamiliyeh neighborhood.فيروز الحلبية, sama3y.net, July 2006 She worked mainly in Damascus, Beirut and Cairo. She was also a talented oud player, and recorded several songs accompanied by the famous violinist Sami al-Shawa and the Jewish oud player Shehadeh Saada. She was also the teacher of Salih Almuhabik, the singer who represented Syria at the International Arab Music Congress held in Cairo in 1932 and who performed with her in Iraq.المنشد والموسيقار الشيخ صالح المحبك, honahalab.blogspot.com, 19 March 2018
She is also remembered from an event in January 1920 in which the song, "Ye Malikaan Ezz Nasran" ("Oh Great Victorious King", that was composed by Aleppo musician Ahmed El-Oubry),الموسيقار الحلبي احمد الأوربري, on عالم الفن والإبداع facebook page, 1 August 2014 became famous after she sang it in honor of the king of Arab Kingdom of Syria (who later became king Faisal I of Iraq) when he visited Aleppo. A song that gained national status after her performance. She also sang the national anthem before him: "I saw the sun after it shone. I was fascinated by her beautiful looks and asked the full moon who he loved fiercely, and he complained and cried: the love of the homeland."أثر الجواري في العصر العباسي , wherweare191.blogspot.com, 17 February 2019فيروز الحلبية / فيروز ماميش, al-fann.net
Personal life According to the prevailing opinion, which is widespread in several sources, Fayrouz al-Halabiyya married a Turkish officer named Hussein Awni Pasha, moved with him to Istanbul in the 1940s and died there in 1955.فيروز ماميش : اوعك تصدق اكون اسير – تسجيل نادر 1926, dig-doc.org
However, the Digital Historical Archive website (Dar al-Watha’iq al-Raqmiya al-Tarihiyya) presents a different version: According to this documentation, she married Mr. Moise (Moshe) Menshi, gave birth to a son named Edward, and her husband and son traveled to Palestine, and she remained in Aleppo for a long time. According to the same source, it was only in 1982 that she arrived in Israel (possibly via Istanbul), met her son, and died in Israel.
External links فيروز الحلبية, Rare recordings of Fayrouz Al Halabiya, on dig-doc.org website
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