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Ziad timeline
Last Name : Rahbany
First Name : Ziad
Date and place of birth : Jan 1st 1956, Antelias.
Father's Name : Assi Hanna Rahbany
Mother's Maiden Name : Nuhad Wadih Haddad (not the same Wadih
Haddad, president of the Popular group for freeing Palestine).
Register number : 56 (رقم السّجل)
Marital Status : Divorced from Dalal Karam.
The Young Ziad :
On the first of January 1956, Nuhad Haddad (A.K.A. Fairuz) gave
birth to her first-born boy. And she, along with her husband Assi
Rahbany, decided to call him Ziad...
Both parents were talented and famous, they never thought that their
son would become the controversial yet great musician, poet and play
writer he turned out to be...
Little Ziad was elected the best looking child in a contest he
participated in... He still thinks the photos aren't his, since he
could never imagine that the child in the photo could grow up to
look like he does nowadays...
At the age of 6, he used to stop his homework, in order to judge if
a tune that Assi, his father, had written was beautiful or not and
to see what was missing in it...
"Assi didn't always choose the version that I, the 6 year old child,
preferred. But it was his way in making me feel that I had an
opinion of my own" Says Ziad.
Later on, Assi heard Ziad repeating a musical tune over and over, he
then asked him if he had heard it anywhere else, and Ziad's answer
was negative, he only heard it in his head... It was then that Assi
began realizing his son's musical talents...
First works :
Ziad's first known work, wasn't musical though. It was a divan
called "Sadiqi Allah" that he had written between the years 1967 and
1968. Any reader can't but acknowledge that no one but a true genius
could write a similar book at the age of 12 or 13.
At the age of 17, in the year 1973, Ziad composed his first music
for Fairuz, his mother. Assi was then hospitalized and Fairuz was
destined to play the leading role in "Al Mahatta" by the Rahbany
brothers, so Mansour wrote the lyrics of a song about Assi's absence
for her to sing in the play and gave Ziad the task of composing its
music. "Saalouni El Nass" became instantly a great hit. Everyone
loved it and were amazed by Ziad's musical talent... Ziad appeared
for the first time on stage in that same play "Al Mahatta" where he
played the role of the detective. He also appeared later on in the
Rahbany Brothers' Mays el Rim in the role of one of the policemen
who ask Fairuz for her "first name, last name and Village".
In Bkennaya, a group of young people used to present new versions of
the Rahbany brothers' plays, with Madonna the Lebanese show singer
in the role of Fairuz. In the year 1973, they contacted Ziad and
told him that ,for once, they wished to do an original play, with an
original script, new songs and a whole new story. Ziad agreed to
take the job, and "Sahriyeh" was played on the "Bkennaya Theater".
That play followed the Rahbany bros style. it was Ziad's first step
into theater. The other plays that came after, were totally
different. They treated political and realistic plots that touched
people in their everyday life; So were his new songs...
The first play of that type was "Nazl el sourour" in 1974, followed
by "Bennesbe La Boukra Shou?" in 1978, "Film Ameriki Taweel" in
1980, "Shi fashel" in 1983, "Bikhsous el karameh we' Cha3b el
3aneed" in 1993 and "lawla fos7at el amali" in 1994.
Love life and music :
Ziad was married to Dalal Karam and had a son "Assi junior" with
her, but his marriage was doomed to fail... The couple got divorced,
they weren't in good relation with each other... That led Dalal to
write her life with Ziad in the gossip magazine "Ashabaka"... And
Ziad to compose some songs about their relationship "Marba el Dalal",
"Bisaraha" and so on... Their separation, along with the fact that
each of them was living in a different part of Beirut during the war
(Ziad in West Beirut and Dalal in East Beirut), kept Ziad from
seeing his son till he was nine years old...
After his separation, Ziad lived a well-publicized 15-year
relationship with actress Carmen Lubbos. Their relationship ended
after Carmen realized that Ziad wasn't able to offer her the
stability she needed... In one of her rare interviews, in which she
accepted to talk about her relationship with Ziad, Carmen maintained
that Ziad, a controversial figure who has invited praise and
criticism alike, was simply the man she once loved... she then added
"never, during all the 15 years of being together 24 hours a day,
did I regard Ziad in the light other people saw him in. To me he was
the man I loved and lived with and drank coffee with every
morning... And that is that.”
Ziad, from his side, said that Carmen had every right leaving him,
since he spent the whole 15 years telling her that the state they
were living in, the apartment, the chaos... was only temporary...
That he was going to fix the whole situation, but he wasn't able to
do it... That is why he thinks that not only Carmen would have done
that, but any woman if she was in Lubbos' shoes... Still, and till
that moment, one can easily notice that the majority of Ziad songs
are related in a way to his relationship with Carmen... He openly
said, that one particular song talked about someone he knows' life
with a woman he loved and who lived with him for a long time, that
song is "Walla3t kteer" from Salma Mosfi's record "Monodose"...
Work with Fairuz :
With Fairuz's separation from Assi, Ziad took over. Six albums till
now were the fruit of this cooperation. "Wahdon" (1979) was the
first album. In it Fairuz sang "El Bosta"... "What do you want? Give
us the song and take 500 LBPs and get it over with!!!" these words
were Assi's to his son when he first heard el Bosta written and
composed by Ziad, to be sung by Joseph Sakr in the play "Bennesbe La
Boukra Chou?"... "Maarefti Fik" (1987) was their second album, Kifak
Inta (1991) the third, "Ila Assi" the reorchestration of Rahbany
songs (1995) came fourth, followed by "Mich Kayen hayk Tkoun"
(1999), "Beiteddine Concert 2001" (2001) and lately "Wala Kif"
(2001)... Fairuz's experiment with Ziad has been a complete
change... Her songs were from now on based on the poetic reality,
not the poetic words... Ziad's poetry came from his catching the
poetic moment in the images of reality and its stories... In other
words, Ziad's "poem", natural as it is, has shown more of Nuhad
Haddad's personality in the image of Fairuz...
Other work :
Ziad's work wasn't restricted to his mother though. Before during
and after the war, Ziad released and co-released few music and song
records like: "Bi hal shakel", "Abou Ali", 'Halleluja", "Shareet
Ghayr Houdoudi", "Houdou Nesbi", "Ana Mouch Kafer", "Hakaya al Atfal"
"Bema Enno", and lately "Monodose"... He did political Radio Shows
on the radio : "Ba3dna Taybeen Oulou Allah", " El 3akl Zeeneh" and
some music related shows... He did singles to some singers and
companies like "Rafi2i Sobhi El Gizz", "Kifak", "Iza baddik" "Abban
3an Jidd"... Some orchestrations like for "Madih el Zoll el Ali",
"Ahmad el Zaatar" and "Moussakafoun noun, the song"... and some
sound engineering for tapes like "Al ra2i el 3aam" and "Moussakafoun
noun, the record"... Held concerts like : the Oriental Jazz Concert
in the BUC Irwin Hall, the Las Salinas Concert, the Forum de Beirut
Concert, the Picadelli Concert, and, lately "Mniha Concert" in Mont
La Salle Ain Saadeh with Ghassan Rahbany, his cousin... That is in
addition to his live playing in some pubs like the "Medusa", "Mon
Général" and currently "Teatro"...
Ziad, a controversial figure (politically, musically and
poetically), has been gathering both fans and critics... Both groups
defend their ideas, beliefs and tastes, accusing the other side of
going too far... That only indicates the importance of Ziad in the
Lebanese, Arabic and international artistic field...
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