Lebanese singer Mohamed Jamal died in the United States at the age of 89, according to the official National News Agency in Lebanon, on Friday.
A number of Lebanese artists and media people mourned him on social media, including actor and director Faiq Hamisi, actress Lilian Nimri, musician Fayez Darian, and media personality Ricardo Karam.
Jamal had left Lebanon in the early eighties and immigrated to the United States after a successful career during which he made local and Arab fame.
Jamal was born in 1934 in the city of Tripoli, in northern Lebanon, and learned to play the oud early because his father owned a workshop for the manufacture and sale of musical instruments, in addition to being a trainer to play some musical instruments.
He started his artistic work on Radio Lebanon in 1954, then traveled in the same year to Cairo, where he participated in 1956 in the movie (The Happy Widow) starring Laila Fawzi and Kamal Al-Shennawy, and he also appeared in a number of Arab films.
He presented a number of successful songs in the seventies, including (I want to see you every day, my love), (You and I were walking on the roads), (His car is bigger and his money is more), (Music oh my music) and (Oh, Um Hamada).
He worked with the Rahbani Brothers on the program “An Hour and a Song” and collaborated with many great poets. He composed music for Sabah, Najah Salam, and the Syrian singer Marwan Hossam El-Din.
He was also famous for performing patriotic songs such as (Syria, Ya Habibi), (Ya Akhdar, and it remains green), (Jordan, Ya Habibi) and (Ya Jerusalem).
He married the singer Tarob, and together they formed a successful duet that yielded a collection of songs, including “Sami’a Qalbi” and “Qoul Kman, Your Voice Heard Me” and “Please, Lady of the House” and “I’m Poor I’m a Darwish” and “Ask and I Wish”.
