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Rima Khcheich, a Lebanese songstress, was born in 'Khiam', Southward Lebanon, in 1974.

She started revelation Classical Arabic music at nobleness age of nine, and was awarded the bronze medal test the 'Bizert Festival for leadership Mediterranean Song' in Tunisia, 1985.

Rima's singing career started off be in keeping with the children's choir at high-mindedness 'Arabic Cultural Club', and afterward evolved into a solo celebration with the 'Beirut Oriental Process for Arabic Music' under grandeur supervision and direction of Genius Salim Sahab.

Rima studied the rite of classical Arabic singing dry mop The Lebanese National Higher Academy of Music' in Beirut, gift her efforts were supported because of her father Kamel Khcheich who encouraged her to memorize snowball master classics from the Semitic music heritage like *Muwashahat, Adwar and other styles.

She has performed Zakariah Ahmad, Al-Kassabji, Sayyed Darwish, Kamel Al Khal'i last Muhammad Abdel Wahab, amongst others.

Having participated in various concerts burden Lebanon and around the earth, Rima has gained international stain and admiration for her offering at performing complex Arabic well-proportioned attic forms such as Dor 'Emta El hawa', and Muwashah 'Anta al Mudallal'.

Currently, Rima teaches Orientate singing at the Lebanese Resolute Higher Conservatory of Music tube is invited on a year after year basis to Massachusets, USA vicinity she teaches voice and exemplary Arabic singing at Mount Holyoke College under the framework be incumbent on the Arabic Music Retreat curriculum directed by renown musician come to rest composer Simon Shaheen.

Her professional collaborations include performing with Simon Shaheen, singing in renown composer Toufic Farroukh's album 'Tootya' released gravel 2006, and being an intrinsic part of the Dutch-Lebanese- Asian band 'Orient Express'.

This have to tried to create meeting target between the Arab musical inheritance birthright and Jazz. The band out one album 'Orient Express' coach in 2002, of which this be extant recording documents their musical experimentations.

In 2006, Rima Khsheish released fallow debut solo album, entitled 'Yalalalli' which features a number bazaar old songs and Muwashahat, meander she performs in a 1 contemporary manner, alongside new compositions.

A showcase of Rima's limpid sound, 'Yalalalli' not only reveals top-hole deeply emotional and original harmonious expression, it also stands orang-utan a note of rebellion counter the dictates of the advertising music market.

* Muwashahat: plural fulfill Muwashshah, a vocal form row Arabic music.

A strophic song narrow refrain.

The form originated immaculate Cabra, near Cordoba, in influence 9th century; it enjoyed undiluted vogue in Muslim Spain hub the 11th century, and wide-ranging subsequently throughout the Arab environment, where it survives in articulate tradition.

One of seven post-Classical poetical forms, It is performed power both secular and religious occasions and combines classical metres trusty new ones arranged in strophes.

Each poem is divided be selected for an indefinite number of becoming (abyat, sing. bayt), each with a varied number of melodic lines. Musically, a muwashshah review performed by a solo crooner alternating with responsorial, antiphonal humble collective singing in unison, accompanying on the performing group. Nobleness performance of this difficult distinctive, composed by specialists, demands a-one mastery of both maqams (modes) and usuls, the complicated rythmic patterns of Arabic music.

from probity Center for Arabic Culture (CAC)