{"id":11869,"date":"2015-04-18T06:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T13:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=11869"},"modified":"2015-04-16T22:41:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T05:41:32","slug":"morning-music-fahd-ballan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/04\/18\/morning-music-fahd-ballan\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Music: Fahd Ballan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/FahdBallan.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Fahd Ballan\" title=\"Fahd Ballan\" class=\"left\" \/>Fahd Ballan was a Syrian folk singer. I don&#8217;t know much about him, except that he was extremely popular in his day &#8212; both as a singer and as an actor (although I can find no record of his acting). He worked with the great Arabic composer and musician Farid al-Atrash in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The following song is more or less, &#8220;Girls of Mukalla.&#8221; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/angryarab.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/mukalla-in-yemen.html\">As&#8217;ad AbuKhalil<\/a>, &#8220;In Arab folklore, the women of Mukallah are reputed to be most beautiful.&#8221; And the song has the lyrics, &#8220;Oh, the girls of Mukalla.  You are the cure of every ill&#8221; &#8212; a typical sentiment in popular music everywhere, it would seem. Regardless, what he&#8217;s singing about, it is a very pleasant song:<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nNiuLyEYxCw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fahd Ballan was a Syrian folk singer. 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