Emaratalyoum (Dubai newspaper) - March 4, 2006


Albums

Songs

Concerts

Press

translation by Ammar Ouwaida


Head Title: Freedom is the Road of Art reaching the Hearts.

 

CDEB assures the importance of religious tolerance, saying that accepting 
others religions and beliefs, living and communicating with them, would 
prevent us from crisis and agonies. CDEB indicates the later crisis that 
happened in reaction to the Caricatured Drawings that is still negatively 
spreading worldwide.

CDEB was quite content and pleased to perform in Dubai. He has had several 
concerts recently in New Zeeland and Australia, but the concert in Dubai was 
the best as he said; CDEB loved the audience who interacted with each song, 
sound and note during the concert yesterday on Arena Stage in the city of
Jomeira. The concert lasted for two and a half hours.

CDEB greeted his audience in Arabic, French and English. He said that he is 
visiting Dubai after twelve years of absence, relating to the big changes that 
took place  notably the architectural movement and lifestyle, both developing 
so quickly. 

CDEB starts the concert with The Road to Freedom from his newest album 
entitled The Road to Freedom. He greeted the audience in that exceeded a 
thousand persons from different nationalities. He also recognized his fans who 
came from Iran specially to attend his concert, and said he wished he would 
perform in Iran  indicating the prevention of broadcasting western songs in 
Iran.

CDEB also greeted his Lebanese fans since he had had an experience with the 
Lebanese audience in Beirut. 

For 150 minutes, CDEB was singing, playing guitar and piano sometimes. It was 
a solo performance and his band was not accompanying him. Even though there 
was no break during the concert, the famous Lady in Red singer
(CDEB) proved that music revives youth, and he told the audience that they 
were his band.

CDEBs talent in acting and comedy was obvious; he would tell the story of 
each song and acts it on stage  which was quite admired by the audience. He 
also stepped out of stage to perform among his fans, which assures again how 
close CDEB is to his fans and audience. He broke this barrier between stage 
and ballroom. People were all taking pictures of him, and the flashes of 
camera can be seen all over the space taking pictures of CDEB.

CDEBs first song was The Road to Freedom. CDEB said it tells a symbolic 
story of a mother who sees the wind coming through her door, indicating that 
summers coming to an end, and winter is coming. The mother says her son she 
is all she has in life and is so important to her  she who spent her whole 
life working the land she loved. She does not want to loose her son (whom she 
compares to a seed) in the war.

CDEB whose electronic site has been visited with over 1.7 million visitors and 
fans ever since 1996, performed more than 20 songs, among which some of the 
Beatles  relating to his raciness (roots) in music (meaning inspirationsorry 
this is a word to word translation)

CDEB performed most of his songs from the new album, among which a song 
dedicated to his daughter Rosanna who won the Title of Miss World in 2003. The 
song expresses the feelings of the father and the mother (parents) when their 
children grow up and leave the family house to seek their own world.

He also performed Snow is Falling on piano, and quite an emotional song 
Songbird which talks about a girl who calls a radio station and sings a song 
by Sting called : Fields of Gold . Her voice was so charming that CDEB could 
not stop from listening, and asked himself: will the angels cry like me.

He also performed a song against wars, showing that killer and killed will 
meet under one sky at the end.

He performed also his famous hit Lady in Red that the audience awaited. Some 
young ladies present at the concert were wearing red dresses  as a response 
to his emotional call in this charming song.

The concert was of great relation between CDEB and the audience/fans, that 
CDEB  writer, composer and singer  came back on stage and said he will 
perform the biggest concert in Dubai, and so he kept on singing and playing 
music solo with his audience.

Despite the fact that the show lasted for a long time, CDEB never felt tired, 
and his voice was always as strong and emotional as it has always been  
depicting variety.

It was an exceptional concert, where CDEB was a singer and musician, and the 
audience/fans who adored his music and beautiful lyrics.




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