Fairuz

by Leon Jackson
Fairuz is a remarkably popular Lebanese musician who has managed to sustain Lebanese cultural motifs and aspirations while blending her performances with sounds as diverse as Mozart and Latin American rumbas, flamenco and Balkan folk music. Fairuz, who is Christian, has recorded both hymns and pro-Palestinian sings. The curious can hear her sing on Al-Gomma al-Hazeenah.