Once again, Ramadan came, without the jurist of the Gulf song, Abu Bakr Salem Belfaqih, who left us at the age of seventy-eight a year and a half ago, after a long suffering with illness in which he moved between hospitals in the Kingdom, Germany and a number of European cities. Death turned the last page in the life of the giant artist, but he undoubtedly did not Turning the pages of his impact or robbing anything of his glow swimming in the skies of Arab art, he enriched the Saudi song with hundreds of high-end works of art, on top of which was his patriotic song “Oh my country, pray”, which was the last thing the late sang during the Saudi National Day party last September.
Salem, the singer, composer and poet, shone his star in the seventies of the last century, and presented a group of distinguished songs, the most famous of which are “He said the meaning to him”, “Poor people”, “Oh night, do I complain”, “Wam tweeted” and “Bat Saji Al Tarf”. And “My Lord’s Love, Sana’a.” And he achieved great success on the level of the Arabian Peninsula and the Arab world, and he has a golden throat that made his voice one of the rarest voices in the world, and he achieved several achievements in the world of music, as he received many medals, awards and artistic honors, including the golden cassette from a German distribution company, and an organization award « UNESCO »as the second best voice in the world, and the Medal of Culture in 1424 AH / 2003, and the commemoration of Sanaa, the capital of Arab culture in 1425 AH / 2004, and the University of Hadramout awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1424 AH / 2003, and the Sports Authority finally honored him at the ceremony that was held in the closed hall in King Abdullah City Sports, in the presence of the giants of Saudi art, and he was also honored by Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, and he received a first-class medal in arts and literature, and Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan gave him a sword of pure gold, and he was honored in the Arab Gulf countries and in his country in more than suitable.
Khaled Al-Jarallah (Jeddah)
