Saudi artist ‘Toha’ is admitted to King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah, after suffering a broken thigh from the fall. I went home and put everything I had.”
The house of the popular artist, “Toha”, was the subject of a fire, and the fire consumed all of her possessions and all of her art archives, and she moved to live in her daughter’s house.
He combined singing and composition
The artist “Toha” is one of the Saudi artists who combined singing, composing and songwriting, and has taken the hand of many Saudi artists and poets. He has his limitations and caveats to him, eventually becoming one of the Arab artists that many of this generation have not heard of.
Her real name is “Fathiye Hassan Yahya” and later got the title of “Toha” for being the nickname given to her by her father. She was born in 1934, and her early education was in Al-Ahsa by virtue of her father’s work in He came to Mecca at the age of 6 after his father was appointed to the Ministry of Finance, and he occasionally traveled to the city of Jeddah because his mother’s family was there. Her father died when she was 12, and the family’s final resting place was in Jeddah. Her story began singing in the shadow of a family in love with the colors of the arts and literature, between a father who writes poetry and has a beautiful voice. She sings in family and friends sessions, as well as having a music library full of records by Saudi and Arab artists, and she used to listen to them, which gave her a sense of music. The biggest role belongs to her brother, the Dr. Muhammad Amin Hassan Yahya, the writer, composer and poet who supported her from the beginning and taught her the basics of singing, was the first to establish a special center for teaching singing and music in Arabia Saudi, which facilitated his collaboration with a group of well-known artists at the time.
his artistic career
He did not have enough education as there were no schools at that time, and he compensated by learning to write from his father and reading from his mother, who was devoted to memorizing the Holy Quran. she traveled to Egypt and resided there for four months, accompanied by her brother, who brought her a private teacher to take advantage of the school. Egyptian in singing, but she refused to learn musical notes, and preferred education to listening, and limited her his interest in the singing heritage of his country.
Oud player
His history with the oud began when he was 8 years old, when he used to seize the times when his brother Muhammad traveled by virtue of his job as a financial inspector, to start playing and humming his own oud, but when he returned, he noticed that the strings were different, which made him angry, and since she was the youngest of his sisters, her father brought her a small Yemeni oud, and she played it daily while performing a few songs in front of her friends of the neighbors daughters.
He began singing in 1949 at the age of 15, and during his long career he recorded many songs, whether he was writing and composing his own, or from other tunes, as he collaborated with many of his generation, and sang composed by Tariq Abdel Hakim, Siraj Omar and Fawzi Mahsoun, which has a relationship with her Neighborhood and a tune that has more than four tunes.
He also sang from the words of the poet Salah Jalal and the writer Thuraya Qabil, as well as a group of songs from the words of his brother, after which he traveled to organize wedding parties in most of the Saudi cities. His song budget is close to a hundred, besides the songs he presented from the ancient heritage, among his earliest songs were “He called me once and told me”, “Take care of me and don’t be arrogant “, and “It’s true that I’m done”.
Am I “Toha”?
The youngest singer appeared in Saudi Arabia, forced to stand on a chair while singing at concerts in her early years, to watch people and watch them. She wrote and composed the song “Show me a handkerchief” to become her most famous song, and among its lyrics is “Show me the handkerchief…and he said I’m walking…his dress is long dark blue”. Hassan Abdullah and Emirati singer Ahlam.
Among the important stations in the life of “Toha”, which he has spoken about in some of the television interviews he has conducted in recent years, was his meeting with Umm Kulthum, during one of the artist Toha’s visits to Egypt. he met the artist Abdel Halim Hafez in one of his private visits to Saudi Arabia, and in one of the sessions he brought them together, he sang him his famous song on the lute “How I repent … and I melt in your eyes.” Abdel Halim offered her to sing it after memorizing the melody, but he died some time later. Simple, this project was not carried out.
Although she has reached the age of nearly 80, “Toha” still participates in revival concerts and declares to the media of her position with many Saudi artists such as Muhammad Abdo, who took some of what she memorized from the colors of singing Al -Dana and Al-Majrour.
