Saudi Maqam - Abadi al-Johar - Saudi Arabi Oud Music (عبد الله الجوهر Abadi al-Gohar)

عبادي الجوهر - Maqam مقام - Taqāsīm, Maqām Rāst
Al Ṭarab - Muscat ʿŪd Festival
Oud - Saudi Arabia
(عبد الله الجوهر ʾAbd Allah Jawhar)
Abadi Johar (born 1953) is a Saudi Arabian singer, composer and a player of the oud.

Born in Jeddah on April 24. Abadi grew up an orphan and he and his brother Abdul-Rahman were raised by his mother. He entered the field of singing at a young age and did not complete his high school studies, as he moved between Beirut , Cairo and Jeddah to play and record songs. When he entered the twenties, his mother suffered from pain and illness, Abadi insisted on presenting his mother to Egyptian doctors , but she did not recover . Ebadi said about the day he lost his mother, “My mother was everything to me and I was very close to her, and in 1974My mother passed away and this affected the matter, and she was my mother, my sister, and my advisor, and when I lost her, I felt that I had lost everything.”

Abadi learned to play by himself at the age of twelve, as he used to play 7 continuous hours a day. Nevertheless, the artist Al-Johar was heading to another field far from art, which is the military field, where he wanted to become a soldier, but his meeting with Talal Maddah changed the course of his life, and entered him into the artistic milieu. Abadi began his artistic journey in 1967 , and that was arranged by the artist , Lotfi Zaini , who insisted that he take him to Talal Maddah , who heard him and was impressed by his talent, and he included him in their company, “ Riyadh Phone. ” [ 4 ] Talal says about him: “ The first time I met Abadi, he was 14 years old, and it caught my attention that he plays in a professional way. He has been playing for twenty years. ” He recorded a collection of works composed by Jamil Mahmoud and Omar Kedras in Beirut . His most famous songs during that period were Ya Ghazal, composed by Talal Maddah .In 1968 [ 5 ] , he sang in a Saher concert with the artist Hiam Younes in Beirut at the TV Theater in the same year. In Beirut , he also recorded the song Ya Halawa, written by Lotfi Zaini and composed by Talal Maddah in 1969 [ 5 ] . If he did not like the introduction, he would put another one, and when he heard it he was impressed and left it as it is.

In 1970, he began composing for himself, beginning with a song he loved, then he traveled to Cairoin 1971to record a song composed by him, entitled As if You Are My Love, written by Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen , [ 6 ] and composed by the late artist Lutfi Zaini under the name ( This Car ). His big breakthrough was in 1976when he participated in the fourth Gulf session ceremony in Qatar , the broadcast was shared by all participating countries, and he presented a group of his most important works such as Rahal, God is with you, Bint Al-Duha, I bear witness. In 1978, he composed one of Talal Maddah’ s most famous songs and presented it to him under the title “ Tawila Ya’droub al-Asheqin ” from the words of Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen.. Abadi wanted to work independently and established his “ Awtar Art Production ” institution in 1984 , through which he began producing his albums after the issuance of the Saudi artist’s rights protection system.

At some point, Abadi loved playing the guitar , but he found that his attachment to the oud was greater, and he thought that he should do what he does on the guitar on the oud. He also wanted to Merge Western music with eastern maqams, so he combined the Malaguena repertoire with oriental divisions, but while preserving the basic spirit of the instrument. The first appearance of the piece was at a concert in Paris 1994 . Ebadi joined the crew of the drama series “ The Bamboo Stalk ”, where Ebadi agreed to sing the introduction to the work that was shown in Ramadan on Al- Rai channel .

Abadi Al-Johar is considered one of the most important composers in the Arab world with the testimony of senior artists. And in one of the programs he was hosting Abadi, the great artist Wadih Al-Saficalled and asked Abadi Al-Johar to compose for him, and the artist Khaled Abdel Rahmanoffered to Abadi to give him some of his poems in exchange for a tune from Abadi, and he also previously composed for NajatAl-Saghira a song, Qad Al-Horuf, but Najat announced her retirement The melody was requested by several male and female artists, and the song was presented to the Syrian artist, Asala Nasri.
In the eighties, Abadi married Noura Saad Al-Hariqi, and he had two daughters, the first Sarah, with whom he was called, and the second Mai. His wife, Um Sarah, suffered from cancerat the beginning of 2006and was admitted to intensive care in London, but he transferred her by medical evacuation to the Military Hospital in Jeddah, and she died at dawn on Friday , October 13, 2006in the month of Ramadan . [ 9 ] A month later, his older brother, Abd al-Rahman, died, and Abadi stayed away from the art scene for a year and a half until he returned with force with the album, Al Jarh Arham.