{"id":30130,"date":"2020-11-22T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T08:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/saudi\/en\/?p=30130"},"modified":"2020-11-22T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T08:51:48","slug":"fairouzs-birthday-is-a-great-time-to-remember-her-hit-song-about-mecca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/community\/fairouzs-birthday-is-a-great-time-to-remember-her-hit-song-about-mecca\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairouz\u2019s Birthday Is A Great Time To Remember Her Hit Song About Mecca"},"content":{"rendered":"

Living legend, Fairouz, celebrated her 85th birthday on November 21st, and Arabs across the world (as well as her other listener) have been sending her wishes.<\/p>\n

It has also been a time to remember some of her many classics<\/h2>\n

One of the greatest artists in the world, Fayrouz, began her artistic career in 1940 as a chorus singer on the Lebanese Radio where she was discovered and her singing career took off.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of her hits was a song about Mecca that she sang as part of a series of six songs in the 1960s that advocated for tolerance between religions. Another song amongst the six was about Jerusalem.<\/b><\/p>\n

In fact, Fairouz <\/b>is considered to be the <\/b>first\u00a0<\/b>Arab singer to appear on Saudi television in 1966 when she performed the song<\/b><\/h2>\n