The funeral began at about ten in the morning (eight GMT) from the Shami Hospital, where Sabah Fakhri died in Damascus, and the coffin was wrapped in the Syrian flag, and a crowd of mourners walked behind him, including artists and officials.
Dozens of citizens stood on both sides of the road that the funeral ceremonies passed through in the capital, Damascus, heading to Aleppo, where the funeral will be held, 200 km to the north.
Veteran artist, Duraid Lahham, said: “He may be gone, but he will not be absent, but will remain present in conscience and memory, because his greatness and the greatness of his voice in that he introduced us to our heritage that we were ignorant of, and without Sabah Fakhri we would not have known him,” according to Agence France-Presse.
Fakhri, born in 1933 in the city of Aleppo, left behind dozens of musical pieces and songs that tongues memorized for decades, such as the songs “Ya Tira fly, O Pigeon”, “Ya Mal al-Sham”, “Qadak al-Mayyas”, and “Say to Maliha”. , and other quotes.
The Syrian actress, Mona Wassef, told reporters on the sidelines of her participation in the funeral: “It is a great loss and not an ordinary one. Sabah Fakhri is not renewed and will not come after him, for the giants do not come after them.“.
She added: “Sabah Fakhri is the owner of Al-Qudud Al-Halabi, and one of the symbols of the Aleppo Citadel. They say the Aleppo Citadel, it is Sabah Fakhri.”“.
In his concerts in which he toured the capitals and cities of the world, Fakhri had a special method in igniting the interaction of the present audience, through his own dance on the stage, where he was distinguished by the movement of his hands and his rotation around himself, in what is known as the “Sunbulah” dance, in imitation of the dervish dance..
Sabah al-Din Abu Qus, the original name of the artist, did not calm down for hours of singing, and he did not get tired of moving at an accelerated pace on the outskirts of the stage from one side to the other, to the sound of the audience applauding and the audience swaying with joy.
Fakhri achieved the record for singing, when he sang in the Venezuelan capital for 10 hours without interruption in 1968, according to the Syrian News Agency (SANA).
The “King of al-Qudud al-Halabi” was a constant state of rapture for the Syrians. Immediately after the news of his death was announced, artists, singers and pioneers of social networking sites in Syria shared the Arab world’s obituaries, and some sang words from his songs, calling him “the castle of authentic Tarab.”“.
Retired employee Abdel Fattah Hanana, 74, said during his participation in the funeral: “His songs are part of our heritage.“.
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