Damascus-Sana
Her companions described her as a nun in the niche of the Syrian song and the icon of committed art, to become the life of the late artist Mayada Basilis, the biography of the human being who was linked to the earth and man and expressed her and her dreams and concerns until her body embraced the dust of her city.
The life of singer Mayada Basilis, rich in her details, spoke about her personally and was reported by SANA in a previous interview, where she was born in Aleppo in 1967 and began her singing career at the age of nine and about that stage, she said, “I started singing in school and through the festivals of the Baath Vanguards and through Radio Aleppo, and I had a program on it. It is directed to children, in addition to my participation in church events. I show the role of these events in developing her artistic talent through her participation in hymns and evenings.
These many posts helped the late woman, as she spoke, in refining the soul and spirit, in addition to forming a committed personality, but on the other hand, it made her afraid of launching and being open to the outside world.
She explained that she was able to get out of this situation after her marriage to the musician Samir Kouifati, who was credited with breaking the barrier of shame and fear in her.
Regarding the presentation of committed art and its impact on it, she said, “The state of commitment affected me in terms of the mass spread, because I cannot be a show singer nor possess this talent, but when I go up on the stage I am completely free and feel that I am in a spacious space and through it I speak to the soul of people.”
Our late artist has returned her widespread lack of fame abroad, like other singers, that she sang on theaters only in addition to her commitment with her family, which is one of her most important priorities, in addition to her refusal to sing in restaurants and not contracting with production companies, noting that her work is the fruit of a joint and continuous effort with her husband without Reliance on any one or entity you adopt.
According to the late singer, she has released more than 14 albums since 1986, as the beginning was with the album “Ya Khatli in Hijra”, a song from ancient Syrian folklore. The songs she performed varied in terms of words and melodies between her renewal of folklore and her singing of religious hymns and preserving the form of the high-end Arabic song And to learn also from the great names in the field of art in Aleppo.
And Mayada enumerated the artists who took her training, saying, "I learned at the hands of great professors in the field of singing, including Sheikh Hassan Al-Haffar, who taught me to sing Maqam Al-Sabawi, as I got acquainted with great artistic figures such as Sabri Mudallal."
Regarding the form of the relationship that she has with her husband in the field of work, she explained that during the recording of any 3-minute song, it takes approximately three hours to record and during this time the general atmosphere is accompanied by tension, because of Koivati's keenness that the recording is perfect, so mistakes are forbidden for him.
The period had artistic cooperation with many Syrian poets and composers and also participated in singing badges for television dramas, including the series "Brothers of the Earth", "Days of Wrath", "Sons of Oppression", "Girls of the Family", "Not a Maid", "Little Women" and "Silks" and "The Guardian of Jerusalem."
In the biography of Mayada, she held many concerts, including a concert at the Palace of Fine Arts complex in San Francisco in the United States, the Opera House in Madrid and the Egyptian Opera House, and she won many awards and honors at the festivals of Syrian song and Arab music in Cairo, Casablanca and Bahrain.
Among the albums the late had left to the public, she created Jamila, Abana, and My Heart in Haki, The Eid Tree, Hanin, and Maryamyat. She also presented a national collection of songs called Bells of Bethlehem.
Rasha Mahfoud