Snapshots summarizing the "Memories" concert honoring Hani Shenouda.. and we review stations from the musician's life

A huge party held by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the name "Memories" brings together the brightest big stars with whom the legendary Egyptian musician Hani Shenouda worked, at the Abu Bakr Salem Theater, in the Riyadh City Boulevard area, as part of the activities of the Riyadh Season, which is organized by the General Authority for Entertainment.

“King Mohamed Mounir, Al-Hadaba Amr Diab, Angham, Ahmed Adawiya, May Farouk, Mustafa Hajjaj, and the Cairokee team.” All these stars gathered to honor the great musician on stage, presenting a bouquet of the most wonderful songs.

150 musicians participated in the ceremony under the leadership of Maestro Hani Farhat. Counselor Turk Al Sheikh, Head of the Entertainment Authority, Medhat Al-Adl, Laila Elwi, Reham Abdel-Ghafour, Jamal Al-Adl, Muhammad Hefzy, Aser Yassin, Hassan Al-Raddad, Elham Shaheen, Mohamed Mohamed Hefzy, attended the ceremony. Abdel Wahab, Ehab Tawfik, Hisham Nazih, Tariq El Shennawy, and a large group of stars.

Top 5 highlights of the concert

1. The first shot, when Amr Diab went up to the stage with Hani Shenouda, and said in his speech to all the audience: “Today is a special day. Jahin, and he supported me with a lot in my life. I thank you that you were the first to believe in my history and contributed to it, and you were the first to support me.

He added: "Hani Shenouda, not only with his accomplishments and his work a lot, who was in the Egyptian band and his soundtracks. Professor Hani didn't come to me on the radio, but this introduced me to Fatahel in Egypt, Professor Salah Jahin and Professor Abdel Rahim Mansour, and this helped me a lot in my life." And he continued, directing a message to him: “My history, you are the first person I believed in, and without you, I would not have come from Port Said .. The first song I sang was time, it is good that I remember it.”

2. As for the second clip, it is the duet that brought together Mohamed Mounir and Amr Diab, where the duo sang the sequence of the series My Loved One, which King Mohamed Mounir sang before him and allowed him to present it in a clip.

In addition, the concert was indeed a "memories" presented by "Shenouda" and the stars to the audience, as he played the soundtracks of films that have passed more than 30 years ago, but they are iconic films that the audience loves, such as "The Suspicious" and "The Cayenne".

3. A state of chemistry, harmony, and harmony that we saw in the songs that Angham presented, accompanied by Muhammad Mounir, and the audience talked about the beautiful state that brings them together on the stage, and they also shared pictures from memory of their standing on the stage together in the past, and they performed together the song “Teach Me About You to Travel”, where it met A great welcome from the attendees, including His Excellency Counselor Turki Al-Sheikh and Amr Diab.. Angham shared with Muhammad Mounir the song “I Love the Sea” by Najat Al-Saghira.

4. The singer Mona Aziz appeared, the author of the song "Don't Think About You, Banat, that the passport is a rest" / who was absent from media appearances for a while, and she presented the song "Cattle Siniora" presented by Hani Shenouda in 1985, and "Don't Consider You, Girls", and this was followed by the rise of Mai Farouk On the stage, she performed the songs "Hoda Al-Layl" and "I Dream With You".

5. The great artist Ahmed Adawiya appeared in a wheelchair, and the artist Mustafa Hajjaj moved him, and the duo starred in a duet, "Crowd, O Dunya, Crowd." Hajjaj said to "Adawiya," "I don't believe myself that beside you today is a dream."

The most prominent stations of the musician Hani Shenouda

The pioneer of new music and its most prominent developer, as he changed the form of the quiet, tarabic melodies that were prevalent at the time of Umm Kulthum and Abdel Halim, and remained widespread after their death, to a completely new musical character, although Hani Shenouda composed many songs for singers of the beautiful time such as Najat, Fayza Ahmed and Ahmed Adawiya, and despite From that, he always had the idea of presenting modern music to establish the Egyptians Band, which achieved great success.

Amr Diab was the most prominent of "Shenouda" discoveries, singer Amr Diab, during the Egyptian Band's concert in Port Said, and persuaded him to travel to Cairo and study music. After that, he put many of his melodies.

The same thing was repeated with the artist, Mohamed Mounir, when he was one of the first to introduce him to the artistic scene, the musician Hani Shenouda, and he composed four songs for him in his first album, “Teach Me About Me.”

As for the soundtracks of artworks, the musician is considered the most prominent pioneer in this field, as he has composed more than 150 artworks between cinema and television dramas, such as “A Stranger in My House” and the movie “The Ghoul”, “Hamada and Toto Gang”.