Syrian Sarah Zakaria has occupied the attention of many in the Arab world in the past few days, after the spread of a song clip of her that was considered to incite customary marriage.
Supporting Sarah Zakaria’s trend of social networking sites in the past few days, the circulation of a decision by the Syndicate of Artists in Syria, Mohsen Ghazi, to stop her in Syria, which results in her stopping in Lebanon.
The Syrian artist became famous in Egypt and the Arab world with a clip from a song she presented at one of her concerts in Lebanon, in which she says: “We will marry in secret.
Sarah Zakaria denied, in her speech to the media, that she had incited a customary marriage by singing this clip, explaining: “The clip (we get married in secret) conveys the reality of a girl who loves her lover and asks him to marry, and here I do not mean customary marriage at all, as was rumored.”
And she continued, “But the social media criticizes anything that is a trend. In Lebanon, there is no customary marriage in the first place. We have many sects, and each of them has foundations in marriage.”
And she saw that “folk art requires improvisation on stage with things from reality, and I put all my concerts on YouTube, in addition to the fact that I own special songs on the site that also achieved millions of viewers.”
The artist also denied what was circulated about her official arrest, and said: “I have not been arrested in Lebanon, and the subject of my arrest in Syria is not officially so far.”
She added, “What is being circulated in the media is just news, and it will end after I sign a pledge with the union in Syria, and I will continue my work normally after that.”
The Shami folk color is the most prominent color that Sarah sings in her concerts in Syria, Lebanon and a number of Arab countries, and she commented: “I am an artist who presents all colors, but I specialize in the Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian folklore, which is the mountainous Dabki color that characterizes this country.”
She added that this color “is also loved by Egyptians, and it is a color that great singers have reached the heart of the Egyptian and Arab audience, such as Assi El-Hellani and Fares Karam.”
And about the overtones in her songs, she said: “People artists, of course, contain inspiration in their songs, such as the songs of Wadih Al-Safi and Assi Al-Hellani.”
And she continued, “Even in Egypt you will find inspiration and humor, as it has been around for a long time and there is no problem in it, and the voices that are currently speaking that it harms our society are strange. This is a humorous matter in the end, and I did not say words on my tongue.”