There is no doubt that the song “Visit me every year once” achieved great success, and we still repeat it to this day, and most of us knew it with the voice of our ambassador to the stars, Fayrouz, but it is known that this song was sung by the Tunisian artist Habiba Mesika in 1921, which was her artistic career short.
It is worth noting that Habiba Mesika, whose real name is Margaret Mesika, was born in 1903 in the Tunisian capital, into an Andalusian Jewish family.
She was known for her beauty, especially since she had green eyes and blond hair, while her body was symmetrical, and she possessed all the ingredients of beauty, which made men jealous of her, and women jealous of her.
However, Habiba Musika and Fayrouz were not the only artists who sang this song. There are also artists Mulla Othman al-Mawsili, Sayed Darwish and Sheikh Imam, Hamid Morsi, Omaima Khalil and Sabah Fakhri.
Song story:
The Lebanese journalist, Ali Noun, revealed in the program “Ya Hala Bel Arfaj” on the “Rotana Gulf” channel, that this melody has two stories. From acquaintances and friends, and then his sister, whom he was apparently waiting for, visited him. He was very impressed and wrote the song.
As for the second narration, it is that the author of the poem is Othman Al-Mawsili, who had seen the Prophet Muhammad in a dream, who invited him to visit his grave, which prompted Othman Al-Mawsili to write “Visit me once a year.”
Who was the first artist to sing it in Egypt?
The artist Hamed Morsi is considered the first to sing the song “Visit me every year once” in Egypt, in 2017, and he is a student of Sheikh Sayed, who cried when he heard him perform it, and it is worth mentioning that Hamid Morsi called him Umm Kulthum as “The Bulbul of Egypt.”
Some of the recent musicians in the “Piano Piano” program, presented by the late Lebanese musician Ihsan Al-Mundhir and actress Mai Sayegh, and prepared by Editor-in-Chief Hala Al-Murr, which was broadcast on Orbit channel, revealed that the song’s lyrics were inspired by Islamic clerics who visit the graves of the dead on Eid Al-Adha, With the passage of time, this song turned into a romantic song in which the lover blames his beloved, and asks her to visit him at least once a year.
In our opinion, everyone who sang this song performed it brilliantly, but Fayrouz delivered it to the audience on a larger scale, in all honesty, and with a somewhat new musical arrangement.