I was drawn to this huge number of friends who mourned the late colleague Sami “Clark” whom Hobeika knew, on the day we met when he joined the acting department at the Lebanese University, studied for one year and withdrew. What pleased me about the two people was that most of them were children and did not know about Sami except that he was the singer of the cartoon series “Grandizer.” Despite their young age, at the time, you notice today that they are talking about the impact of the series on them through Sami’s voice. Here is the important point, which is the impact of the aesthetic dimension on children’s attitude towards artwork, which is neglected by a large number of researchers in the impact of children’s theater on the child’s personality, as most of them only talk about the message of the text, and do not lend the aesthetic message in the artwork, especially in terms of Music, no interest. Most of them believe that the child cannot taste music that exceeds its three musical notes, while the child listens at home to all the music that his family hears, responds to and affects him, even if he did not announce this at the time because he does not have the language of expressing feelings yet, and now he announces it with regard to the voice Sammy Clark.
It is beautiful to read the description of the voice of Sami, the strong “baritone”, and the most beautiful thing is that it is engraved in the memory since childhood.
long lonely
Sami Clark, one of my favorite singers… the companion of youth, the night and the promise… whose song “Get up, dance, boys”… came within the lines of my novel “Katyusha” with its beautiful promise that oozes with joy.
Children and adults know him by the songs of “Grandizer”…they know him the beautiful slope to which he rose towards the light.
I came across him in a café in Beirut and I was telling those who were with me about him. We sang together.
One slips away, carrying with it our days and dreams
Here is the song “You Remember”.
Mohamed Lasheib
The death of the creator of the song “Grendizer”, the Lebanese singer Sami Clark (Hobeika) at the age of 74… May God have mercy on him. We lived our childhood on his beautiful songs.
I remember how we used to speed up as soon as we left school at six in the evening until we realized the orphan class designated for children on the state television “Channel One” in black and white, where it was only her, and no classes for animation except for that time of the day.
Michel Cake
Goodbye Sami Clark
The culture and music of Lebanon came upon the world, and the culture and music of the world came upon Lebanon, at a time when Lebanon was closed in on itself.
They are the songs and dances of love in our adolescence and youth in the early eighties of the last century, when the homeland was cut off in its black war. We go out to our evening parties, “You dance, boys,” to derive from his songs the joy of steadfastness, continuity, love of life and survival despite those sad days for Lebanon.
weighs Hajj
It wasn’t Sami Clark who shaped my memory. There were those who occupied and filled it: Azar Habib, Issam Raji, and, of course, Salwa Katrib. I quickly passed the news of his death, and pressed on the memory of others.
Beirut night is refreshing today. I watch the sky and I see the stars faded. Clouds cover it and almost erase it. A gentle breeze blows the nuggets of wine off my head. Didn’t I shiver then? Not shivering. Suddenly I realize that Sammy Clark’s death has reminded me of my now empty memory. Another star has gone out. Not my star, but her extinguishing reminded me of an extinguishment before her.
Who survives today in this feeble memory?
Michel Damaa
At the last breath there is the departure of the body. Today, artist friend Sami Clark leaves this mortal world. We are used to saying goodbye to loved ones, today he got off his horse to join the afterlife, Sami Clark. This man who made the beautiful time was one of the stars in the midst of war in the country. He sings, composes and writes songs in all languages, and his songs are still ringing on the radio to this day.
He has enough in his archives to say that he is a giant of my country. Personally, I had a loving, respectful and continuous relationship with him. The last contact between us was two weeks ago, and despite his illness, he was insisting that he would return to sit again in his beautiful world, he told me more than once, how much I desire to be my last breath on stage.
Mohammed Nasser
Sami Clark, who passed away today, I consider personally the most artist who can carry me to the memories of the civil war with “It’s bittersweet, but take back the moments.” The days of western and eastern Beirut when the capital was divided into two halves. Sami Clark’s songs were playing on all radio stations, although he was almost not one of the favorite artists of the “National Resistance Front” system. On the other hand, his songs on “Al Sharqiya” radio stations were a daily staple of patriotic songs…
The most patriotic song by Sami Clark, which was broadcast on “Mount Lebanon”, “Voice of Lebanon” and others, was “My land is the land of the championship, my country is the land of the heroes.” Even “The People’s Voice” was broadcasting this song. In addition to a large national repertoire with Zaki Nassif and many others.
A piece of my soul feels lifted, but I hear “Oh on these days”, “Get up dancing, boys”, “Khaliky here”, “I command you, my love, your command” and other songs in which he collaborated with Elias Rahbani, one of the creators of his artistic glory.
One of my favorite songs from Sami Clark is “You told me and you promised me that we would spend the summer” from the movie “The Last Passage”, which I used to hear in open-top cars with its loud voice during the war…
Several times I’ve been to era soap operas from the ’80s, I’ve heard Sammy Clarke’s songs on the audio tape.
But Chloe com and the Grendizer song “Ali Ali Batal Fleed” is another com.. What is this sweet nostalgia that you are throwing in… The sound in this song is not too great if I say that the Arabs united from the ocean to the Gulf.. and once I heard it with orchestral music.. What is this greatness for me.. And in a very sweet moment when Sami published his picture with the original Japanese Grendizer singer, during a meeting with him in Saudi Arabia at a festival for the world of animation.
One of the sweet moments when Ziad Rahbani surprised us at the Beiteddine Festival 2018. The band sang the hymn that Ziad gave to Sami, “Sir, give us of this bread.”
Sami, when the covers of art magazines were the preserve of women, was able with his talent to impose himself and top the covers at the time, like the attached picture to the cover of “Al-Mawd” magazine.
Sami Ghab, left in his career more than 700 songs in Arabic, French, English, Greek and Italian… He promised to put the circumstances of their singing in a book in many languages, but I don’t know if this book was printed or not.