Throughout history, women like mayada bseliss have had a great impact in various fields, whether scientific, practical, or artistic. She put her touches and made history remember her, and generations pass on her legacy one generation after the other.
As Ghada al-Samman, a Syrian writer, said “only art is what keeps us from going insane.”¹
Beauty came out of her lovely voice, from her pure soul love was born because God gave her a magnificent voice and a wonderful ability to perform. She was not the daughter of the Qudud Halabiya, nor was she a singer of modern video clips, she created a special and strongly present art. One of us was not pleased by her song” Kithbak Helo” which one day was a vocal test for many of those who aimed to express their pure and balanced voices because when you are able to sing this song well, it means you have a good voice.
The Syrian artist was born in 1967 in Aleppo city in Syria, where she got her primary and high school education. She has been an expert in singing since she was young by singing church hymns. Mayada Bseliss is a daughter of an old-fashioned family that’s why her beginning in the music field started with only religious hymns. Her actual start was not until she got married to the musician Samir Kwefati.²
Her artistic beginning started around the age of nine. She quickly climbed the Arabic singing ladder and became one of the most important and famous Arabic voices until she passed.
She made with her husband, the musician Samir Kwefati, an elegant artistic couple for about forty years, who has always been looked at by the Arabic audience with admiring eyes and grateful hearts for that authenticity, sincerity, and steadiness in presenting elegant art. Through these years, Mayada Bseliss produced many singing albums, participated in a lot of concerts and local and international festivals, as well as participating in special songs and the intros of many popular drama television shows.³
Fourteen albums of Mayada Bseliss were released in 1986. The first album was”Ya Kately Belhajr” which is a song from old Syrian folklore. Her song”Kithbak Helo” got the gold medal as the best Arabic song in 1999 which was a passport to the world of fame. In 2010, an album of hers was out under the title of “Ila Ummy wa Ardy” which is a work that got delayed a lot but was worth the wait for it was at the expected level that her audience was used to. Mayada Bseliss also sang many intros for massive television shows like”Ekhwat Alturab”, and “Ayyam Alghadab”.
She also held a lot of concerts in numerous congregations. Some of the most known ones are:
On 18 March 2021, on a Thursday morning, Mrs. Mayada Bseliss passed away after a long and tough journey with cancer which was recently known to the public. Between Wednesday’s midnight and the first hours of Thursday morning, March 18th, 2021, Mrs. Mayada Bseliss passed away after a long fight with cancer, which was recently revealed to the public. Her absence made a huge tragedy in the art world from the very first moments. Most of the Syrian artists and Mrs.Mayada Bseliss’s audience expressed their sadness with touching words that spread all over social media.³
Everyone who was charmed by her lovely voice shall never forget it. Her beautiful songs will always be present for people to enjoy listening to them because the death of Mayada Bseliss is just like a bad lie.
The question here is: could anyone fulfill the absence of Mayada Bseliss?
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References:
[1] Hekam
[2] Marefa
[3] Arageek