Shadia was afraid (of the media), you won’t find her conversations visual, audio or written except for a very few. Shadia believed that she was not created to speak, but to sing and act, except that if you meditate on these rare conversations, you will discover the extent of her intelligence, levity and spontaneity. In the early 1960s, Shadia married the great writer-journalist Mustafa Amin, and when he was arrested, she Shadia was with him, and that’s another story. Anis Mansour, Musa Sabry and Ahmed Ragab and despite this, Shadia remained cautious with the media.
I, like many others, tried to communicate with her more than once, and their attempts failed and I lost hope, but fate gave me a surprise that never crossed my mind.
In the early 1980s, I was on a weekly visit to the home of the great musician Mahmoud al-Sharif, and learned from him that he would soon receive Shadia for a rehearsal of the song (The world has alienated me from you). I’m dealing with the press, but the sheriff told me to at least wait until I meet Shadia.
Shadia considered Mahmoud al-Sharif’s house as her second home, and the lady (Fawqia) who supervised the Sharif’s house was very close to her and felt comfortable with her. .
I didn’t expect Shadia to just deal with what we call (meat cakes). As soon as Shadia entered, the sheriff said to her: and a journalist too, but this time only my son).
And the message came that the sheriff wanted, and Shadia said some nice words about my uncles, and asked permission to leave, so I wouldn’t spoil the oud rehearsal that usually precedes the band rehearsal. if you want to listen on one condition, you won’t write.” Human relationships are more than enough, and the strange thing is that Shadia, despite her happiness with the melody and repeating parts of it in her voice on the oud with Sharif, and between verses she praised him, but in the end he apologized for not recording it, and it was the lot of Yasmine Khayyam, and unfortunately he didn’t get any success.
Mahmoud Al-Sharif is the owner of hundreds of hit tunes by great singers, led by Shadia, who took the largest share, followed by Laila Murad in the number, but Abdel-Muttalib is the most singer who sang his tunes.
I didn’t want to know from the sheriff why Shadia withdrew the recording of (The world has alienated me from you), because I felt that merely referring to the question would cause embarrassment and harm to the sheriff.
Despite this, Al-Sharif’s relationship with Shadia was not severed until his departure. Despite her retirement, he continued to play the role of her father for her, whom she called proud of her art (Khufu oriental music).
After the end of the rehearsals, Fawqia began to put dishes of various kinds on the table, and with all delicacy and sweetness Shadia insisted that we gather in front of that burning food, and I have not published anything about this meeting, and about the dialogue that what happened between Sharif and Shadia was and will also remain among those secrets.. I just record Now Shadia’s simplicity, her refined sense and her warm welcome still haunt me.
Yesterday the memory of Shadia’s departure passed, and I found in my memory what deserves to be told about the person Shadia, because volumes are not enough for the artist Shadia!!.
