Native name عصام رجي Role Singer Birth name Issam Rajji Died 2001 | Years active 1970s–2001 Genres Lebanese Music Name Issam Rajji | |
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Issam Rajji (Arabic: عصام رجي) (born 1944 in Kfarshima, Lebanon) was a Lebanese singer lyricist and composer most prominent during the 1970s and 80s period.
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Early Life
Issam Rajji began his artistic career, working backstage for the television program "Art is Two Hobbies". He later was introduced to the Rahbani brothers and worked with them in the choir. In 1965, the Lebanese artist Romeo Lahoud starred alongside him in the play "Mawal", as a supporting actor. After starring in first official play performance, he later star in more than 25 theatrical and musical works.
Later Life
Rajji went to Jordan for a while during the Lebanese civil war and married a Jordanian woman Nawal Elias and had three children with her Layal,Rami and Sariya. He and his family also lived in Oman for a long period of time but then returned permantly to Lebanon in 1993 after the civil war. He died in 2001 of a stroke after having a brain seizure. Apparently, when once asked about how he felt about dying, Rajji replied, “I hate death because it would separate me from the people I love.”
Career
Best known for his songs Lagetek (When I Met You...), and “Yawmain wa Shahrain” (Two Days and Two Months), Rajji’s special deep vocals also earned him roles in Lebanon’s top musicals and plays in the 1970s and 1980s with the Rahbani brothers, Sabah, Shoushou and Nabih Aboulhosn. Rajji was also an accomplished composer, and besides writing a great deal of his own music, he also wrote for Sabah (singer)
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