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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Shafeeq Tawfiq Kabha (1960 - October 23, 2013) is a Palestinian folk singer and singer from the Palestinians occupied in 1948. He was born in the village of Barta'a in 1960 in the Northern Triangle to move and grow up in the village of Kafr Qara also in the Northern Triangle, specifically in Haifa District. He started singing at an early age, then founded the "Al-Lira Band" for folk singing, then renewed it to become the Layali Al-Rabee band. He then married and had 4 children: Saed, Layali, Muhammad and Faten.
Shafik has sung Kabha for more than 30 years, and has given dozens of Palestinian concerts. He died on October 23, 2013, after being shot at the Umm al-Fahm Junction. He was then transferred to Hadera Hospital, where he died after being seriously injured.
its beginning
He discovered the talent of Shafik Kabha at the age of 13 when he was reading the Qur’an in school, and at the age of 16, Shafik Kabha began singing. Shafik did not study music in a music institute, but rather learned and trained himself by listening to the radio and getting to know people from the field. Shafiq Kabha sang in his beginnings the Iraqi color and created it, and he also sang the Palestinian, Gulf and even Moroccan colors. He is known for his folk and patriotic songs. He started singing at the age of 18, and founded the Al-Lira Art Troupe, and later renewed it to become the Layali Al-Rabeeh Ensemble.
Spring Nights Ensemble
Shafik Kabha founded the band "Al-Lira" in the past, then renamed it "Layali Al-Rabee" band. The band includes the following:
Organ player: Raed Amara and Tawfiq Abu Bakr.
Drum player: Ezz El Din - Nazareth.
Guitarist: Ayas Jbara - Taybeh.
Drummer: Fakhri Hamrasheh - Umm El Fahem.
Chorus: Ahmed Al Kassab, Abu Hamad, Rami Kabha and Youssef Jamal.
Shafiq Kabha and the Palestinian Heritage
Shafiq sang many Palestinian traditional songs, mixing between heritage and Western modernity, and used the keyboard and guitar to redistribute some of the famous Arabic songs. Like some songs of Umm Kulthum and Abdel Halim Hafez. Kabha is considered one of those who opened the windows of art in Palestine to Arab folklore and music in the Arab world. Shafiq Kabha sang Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese and Egyptian folk songs, and was thus able to attract a wide audience from the West Bank, Gaza, the Palestinian interior and the camps in the diaspora. I reunited the Palestinians and formed a connection for them and shared my common Palestinian hobbies.
Forbid him to sing
The Israeli authorities banned Shafiq Kabha from singing in the West Bank for 10 years, due to his continuous singing of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian guerrillas. He was also banned from singing in Egypt and Jordan.
albums
Shafik Kabha and Abdel Hamid's Album The Groom Has Come 2012
Shafik Kabha and Saeed Kabha's First Look Album 2012
Popular cocktail album 2011
Shafik Kabha and Mohamed Anis album 2011
Album Shafik Kabha, Abdel Hamid and Ashraf Abu Lail Happy Evening 2010
Death
The artist, Shafiq Kabha, died on October 23, 2013, after his car was shot at by an unknown motorcycle. His death was announced in Hadera Hospital in Umm al-Fahm, and he was buried in his hometown, in the village of Kafr Qara.
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