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Farida Mohammad Ali (Arabic, فريدة محمد علي; born 1963) is an Iraqi singer known for her mastery of the Iraqi maqam and Arabic maqam styles. Since leaving Iraq in 1997, she lives in the Netherlands and performs Iraqi maqam with the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble.
Farida Mohammad Ali was born in Kerbala, Iraq, in 1963.[1]
She graduated from the Musical Institute & Academy of Fine Arts (Baghdad Conservatory), where she studied under oud master Munir Bashir. It was Bashir who encouraged her to perform classical Iraqi maqam, although women were generally discouraged from such study.[1] She has also studied with Sha Ubi Ibrahim, Hussein Al-Athami, and Mohammad Gomar, and has had extensive training in both Iraqi and Arabic maqam.[1]
Ali became the first female teacher of classical Iraqi Maqam, and taught singing at the Baghdad Conservatory.[1][2]
From 1986 until 1989, she was a member of the Iraqi Musical Heritage Group,[1] and became a member of the Iraqi Artists Union in 1987.[1]
She left Iraq in 1997. She married Mohammad Gomar, player of the djozza, and was living in the Netherlands.[3]
She performs regularly in the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble. The ensemble was established in 1989 in Baghdad by Mohammad H.Gomar to continue the 1973 ensemble organized by the prominent oud teacher Munir Bashir.[4] All members completed their studies at the Musical Institute & Academy of Fine Arts in Iraq.[4]
She performed in International Mystic Music Sufi Festival in Karachi, Pakistan in 2007.[4]
Ali is the recipient of many honours, including:
アリは、映画監督マーシャ・エマーマンとイラク系オーストラリア人の作家兼俳優マジッド・ショコールによる2015年のドキュメンタリー映画『ティグリス川のほとりで』に出演している。この映画は、その年のバグダッド国際映画祭で最優秀ドキュメンタリー映画賞を受賞した。[ 2 ]
すべて「ファリダとイラク・マカーム・アンサンブル」名義でクレジットされている。
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