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Oussama Rahbani
Lebanese musician and composer (born )
Oussama Al Rahbani (Arabic: أسامة الرحباني; born 9 December ) is a Lebanese musician and composer. He is the son of the Lebanese composer, musician, and poet, Mansour Rahbani.
Oussama completed his education at Collège des Frères Maristes Champville until , Collège des Apôtres, Jounieh until and finally Kaslik, where he got his Lebanese baccalaureate. He studied History at the Lebanese University. A keen soccer fan, he played as an amateur.
He took piano lessons from a young age and music courses at Berklee College of Music in and His classical music and jazz music was influenced by his brother, Marwan Rahbani, and his cousin, Ziad Rahbani. Oussama's background in classical music developed alongside Marwan, and Ghadi Rahbani. He is also an avid music collector.
Career
[edit]to , he was a choirmaster of the youth choir at St. Elie's church in Antelias. From to , he performed as a musician with the Rahbani brothers
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Oussama Rahbani: The Composer, the Poet and the Political Philosopher
A Family of Composers
Oussama Rahbani was born on månad 9, in Lebanon to Terez Abou Jouda and Mansour Rahbani. His father, Mansour, was part of the famous Rahbani brothers, which included Assi and Elias. These three talented brothers were music composers, poets and philosophers who helped shape the modern Lebanese music genre. Mansour and Assi were musical partners who collaborated on a number of orchestras, projects and songs. The Rahbani brothers also famously took traditional Lebanese and Levantine musical sounds and reimagined it into a new sound, which became known as “Rahbanian” music. Assi would eventually fall in love with Fairuz, an up in coming Lebanese singer. After their marriage, Fairuz joined the brothers who helped her become one of, if not, the most famous Arab singers of the classical era. Together, the Rahbanis and Fairuz put Lebanon on the Arab musical map, which up until that point w