Ismahan, Always Good, Always Sad

One of the greatest tragic stories of Arab singers is the story of Ismahan, the Syrian singer who made a home in Egypt along with her brother Farid Al Atrach, they come from a royal family in Syria, that lost everything. While she never found real happiness in her personal life, she gave many the reason to be happy.

She was born in the sea and died in the water when her car fell in a river or was that an assassination plot? They accuse her of being a spy, but no one really knows much about that. She was worrying Oum Kalthoum who saw her as part of the competition.

If you are a follower of Ismahan, you can almost laways detect a sense of sadness in her songs, even her most famous song Layaly Al Onis Fi Vienna reveals much of that sentiment from this gifted singer that has a troubled life and more mysteries than a mystery novel. She is what she is..

There is always a hint of

أسمهان ليت للبراق عينا Asmahan