The Lebanese singing center lost the veteran artist Sami Clark, who spent 74 years, of which he spent more than half a century, presenting songs in several languages on European stages, mixing some of them with Arabic, and participating in a number of local films.
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Late Lebanese singer Sami Clark
The Lebanese artist, Sami Clark (Sami Hobeika, born in Dhour El Choueir – Lebanon), passed away today at the age of 74. He was known worldwide for his participation in song festivals between France, Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, and Austria. Among them are French, English, Russian, Armenian, Italian and German.
Clark became famous for his foreign songs, and when he sang “Tami”, in collaboration with the artist Elias Rahbani, he became famous, adding to it in the eighties the song of the dubbed series “Grendizer”, which also achieved a high rate of listening.
When he decided to sing in Arabic, his songs quickly became popular, as he mixed many of them with clips in foreign languages, with a permanent decision for him to provide a lyrical atmosphere that reaches the young generation. Birds, “I command you, my love,” “Without a quarrel, Moon,” “Tonight I want to get married,” and many others.
He responded to the requests of a number of Lebanese directors (Marwan Rahbani, Youssef Sharaf El-Din, and Samir Al-Ghosini), who invited him to participate in their films during the past war period: “Last Summer”, “The Last Passage”, “Hasnaa Wa Amalek”, “The Women’s Game”. He engaged in a kind of modernization of the Lebanese national anthem, presenting it in a modern arrangement with a choir recording his words: “We are all for the homeland, for the sake of knowledge.”
In recent years, the late artist formed a musical trio with the artists Abdo Munther and the Little Prince, under the name “Golden Age – The Golden Age”, and they held many concerts and participated in festivals, and they had private recordings, including 6 Gregorian hymns.