What some people do not know is that the great musician Baligh Hamdi was close and enjoying the Saudi song. In an old dialogue prepared by the late artist Talal Maddah for Saudi TV, the late Egyptian musician expressed his admiration for the Saudi song.
Baligh Hamdi said during the dialogue: “People seemed to love her and feel her, and the national character of her is clear and she has a personality, style and words are clear, and this is the reason for its spread on a larger scale.”
In another interview, the Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi praised Saudi art and said that it had reached a good stage of development and pointed to the great spread it had reached in the Arab world and how Saudi songs and melodies became echoed on every tongue.
When asked about his opinion of the Saudi artists, he said that they are in his hand and Talal Maddah is in the other hand, pointing out that Talal Maddah is the best who sang in Saudi Arabia, and he is the most beautiful Arab voice, and his interaction with the word and the melody is sufficient.
When asked about the artist, Mohamed Abdo, he said that he is a smart artist and has a good voice and performance, but he used his intelligence to exploit art to obtain material, so that at one time he sang for profit only, and I hope that he will review himself to serve art faithfully.
The artist, Mohamed Abdel, raised a state of controversy after he was a guest on the “Stages” program with the media Ali Al-Olayani, broadcast on the “sbc” satellite channel. They leave a national legacy.
The Arab artist recalled his memories with the song “Maqadar” and rejected it, and stated that he was subjected to a conspiracy on one of the marriage occasions that he revived with Talal Maddah, which prompted the audience to leave before singing after Talal Maddah finished his connection.
Saudi writer and academic Turki Al-Hamad criticized Muhammad Abdo’s statements and wrote on his Twitter account: “Talal Maddah, may God have mercy on him, was an artist full of feelings and feelings, singing with his heart and soul before his voice, and Abu Bakr Salem, may God have mercy on him, was an elite artist in his words, melodies and performance, And not everyone agrees with him.”
Al-Hamad continued, “Our able artist, Muhammad Abdo, could have had mercy on them, and refrained from delving into their biography in appreciation of them and that is enough.”
The Saudi journalist, Muhammad Al-Sheikh, said through his account on Twitter: “If the melody of “My Beloved Country” was indeed stolen, as Muhammad Abdo claimed, then thanks to that honorable national “thief”, who, thanks to his clever theft, put on that poem the most beautiful melody.
And decorate it with the sweetest voice to present to the homeland that timeless patriotic song, the like of which was not immortalized in a song until it dwelt in the conscience of all Saudis.