When reading my friend and fellow blogger Jessica's blog earlier today, I saw that she had briefly mentioned the Lebanese singer Elissa, a performer of Arabic pop music. I've known about Elissa for year, as I came across her Wikipedia article in 2007; I re-discovered her a few years later either by randomly browsing YouTube one day or being
linked to her when looking up the music of Israeli pop singer Dana
International. Even though I can't understand Elissa's lyrics, I do like her voice and her music; I have her 2002 album, Ayshalak.
This is "Ayshalak" from Ayshalak:
I have Ayshalak because that was the Elissa album available on Amazon UK; I received it at Easter. Ayshalak is the first album I own that isn't sung in English; before owning a copy of Ayshalak, the only albums that I owned with significant amounts of another language to English were a couple of Shakira's, which contained Spanish tracks.
I'm quite pleased that Jessica mentioned Elissa; it's good to know another person who knows about her!
I love her voice. :) When I get the money, I would love to order her CD. I can understand a little bit; I can't wait for the day when I can understand the whole thing!
ReplyDeleteHer voice is lovely. :) I'd like to get more of her CDs but Ayshalak appears to be the only one available on Amazon UK at the moment, although I haven't looked much.
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