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`The woman with the golden voice.' `We love Fairuz more than her husband used to.' `Only she is able to talk with heaven.' For half a century, the admirers of the Palestinian singer Fairuz have been ascribing divine powers to her. Everywhere in the world, so also in Lebanon, people worship this lady who is able to make the moon come out with her voice, tradition has it. In Fairuz, we houden zo veel van mekaar, several fans use anecdotes to illustrate the great significance this performer has in their daily lives. They all draw strength from the magical voice; strength they need to survive as Palestinians in Lebanon, the country they loath so deeply. And they all have their favourite songs, which are performed in the documentary, whether or not to accompany shots of Lebanon and old photographs of the now aged but still performing singer. The lack of moving pictures from the film adds to Fairuz's mythologisation, but the patient spectator is eventually rewarded with the `goddess' in person.
(Fairuz, We hielden zoveel van mekaar)
Er is veel wat de Arabische wereld verdeeld houdt, maar dat de dag moet beginnen met muziek van Fairuz, daarover is iedereen het eens. De Libanese zangeres is al een halve eeuw dagelijks op de radio te horen, van Irak tot Marokko. De documentaire toont de liefde van uiteenlopende inwoners van Beiroet voor deze diva. Via haar liederen over verloren liefde en onvervuld verlangen vertellen ze over hun eigen leven en over de bewogen geschiedenis van hun stad.
Beiroet is de bakermat van Fairuz en haar muziek. Ooit was dit een welvarende havenstad, het 'Parijs van het Midden-Oosten' en een toevluchtsoord voor mensen van allerlei religieuze en etnische komaf. In 1975 werd de idylle wreed verstoord door een burgeroorlog die vijftien jaar zou duren.
Fairuz bleef in Beiroet wonen en werd het symbool voor het verlangen naar vrede in Libanon en het Midden-Oosten. Tot op heden trekt ze, hoewel ze inmiddels al bijna zeventig is, nog overal in de Arabische wereld volle zalen. Maar ook elders, zoals de afgelopen twee jaar in onder meer Las Vegas, Basel en Parijs, komt het publiek massaal op haar concerten af.
Fairuz' muziek is een combinatie van traditionele Arabische muziek en westerse elementen. In de documentaire is veel van haar muziek te horen, die ook voor een westerling verrassend goed in het gehoor ligt. In de Arabische muziek worden de teksten van even groot belang geacht als de muziek. Fairuz is beroemd geworden door haar odes aan Libanon en haar tragische liederen over de teloorgang van haar land.
FAIRUZ, We loved each other so much
Director: Jack Janssen
Production: Pieter van Huystee, Pieter van Huystee Film & TV
Script: Jack Janssen
Photography: Martijn van Beenen
Editing: Menno Boerema
Sound: Wib Nelissen
Soundmixing: Marco Vermaas
Distributor: Cinema Delicatessen
TV company: IKON TV
Other: Hetty Krapels (Executive producer)
2003, colour, video, 75 min, sound
Genre: documentary
Produced in: Netherlands
Premiere: 11.09.2003
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frifco 1 year ago
Her father was a Syriac Catholic Assyrian and her mother was a Lebanese Maronite from Jabal al Arz. Fairouz (Nouhad Wadi Haddad) was raised as a Maronite. And anyway, there are not many differences between the Maronites and Syriac Catholics...
farahmichael 2 years ago
She is Lebanese Maronite from the North of Lebanon my friend. Her father was Lebanese from Turkey, but raised in Lebanon. Fairouz is as Lebanese as they come. A real lady in every respect!
farahmichael 3 years ago
*shares without the in :P
limpideroar2 3 years ago
yes :) its something everyone in shares
limpideroar2 3 years ago
Thanks. I know she's a Lebanese singer. I also heard everyone in Lebanon loves her, no matter what his or her religion is. Is that true?
hsuanyao 3 years ago
Thank you very much!!
hsuanyao 3 years ago
saba7 o massa morning and evening
limpideroar2 3 years ago
hello just letting you know fairuz is a lebanese singer :) and in the video they say it and it's a lebanese radio station
limpideroar2 3 years ago
The first song is so beautiful. I loved the song so much when I watched the movie at the international film festival. I love the song but I can't find it because I don't know the name of the song. What's the name of this song?
hsuanyao 3 years ago