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Jamil Qishta was born in Palestine - Palestinian nationality - he traveled to Iraq in the late forties and lived in Baghdad. He is considered to be from the generation of singers who appeared in Baghdad in the late fifties and became prominent in the early sixties . He achieved a good deal of fame and remained in popular memory for a long time.
His songs were distinguished by their authentic Baghdad and Arabic flavour and by his distinguished performance with calmness and a soft voice . He presented a number of songs on Baghdad TV in the mid- sixties and through Baghdad Radio. He performed a number of romantic, patriotic and nationalistic songs such as “Sama’ni Kilmet Helwa”, “Kalimat Maleeana Hanan”, “Halaflak Bili Ain Ma Ansi Al-Athnayn”, “I Can’t Forget the Days Even If It’s Two Years”, “Athkar Gharamk”, “Adhobat Kalamak”, and “Awal Basmatin”, all of which were composed by Alfred George. His most famous songs are “Awal Majitak”, “Zeina Ya Bedouin”, “Ashar Layali”, “Yalomouni Behwak”, “Qalbak Ya Ghali Mahan Wa Safali”.
He also sang the anthem “Al-Thawra Al-Arabiyya” with lyrics by Muhammad Radi Jaafar and music by Salem Hussein. Composer Mohsen Farhan says about him: “Jamil Qishta had a beautiful way of performing and was skilled at singing Arabic songs. He turned to sound engineering and music direction and was skilled at it, contributing to the music direction of dozens of Iraqi songs . May God have mercy on Abu Ghassan, as he was dedicated and loyal to his work. Composer Surour Majid says: “I still remember his face and features well, especially the prominence of his cheekbones, his small sunken eyes, and his relatively weak body . He performed a number of romantic and patriotic songs.
I lived with him for a period of time in his last days before he left Iraq, where he became a music director and retired from singing. I used to always joke with him. He has an infallible musical ear. He also trained his son Ghassan in music direction, and he is now one of the distinguished directors.” Filmmaker Ali Hadi Al-Hassoun says: “Jamil Qishta is a singer from the fifties who was popular at the time. He was appointed to one of the artistic positions in Iraqi radio, and his songs tended to be Bedouin in dialect. “Ma Itqali Raeh Wayne” is considered the pinnacle of his songs and is frequently requested by listeners.
When the union between Iraq and Jordan was established, he sang many patriotic songs that blessed the unity of Iraq and Jordan , but after the July 1958 revolution, he disappeared due to the persecution he suffered as a result of those songs that praised the Hashemite union. He has a strong tone and a beautiful hoarseness and carries a sense of singing.
In the sixties, I used to meet him at the Hassan Kitawi Café in Bab al-Sharqi, which was a café for musicians and filmmakers . He was handsome, elegant, tall and slim, and I remember that his pictures were in a photography studio near the Ahrar Bridge in al-Salihiya. Music researcher Abdul Rahman al-Mu'adidi says: "Jamil Qishta arrived with the artist Ruhi al-Khammash to Iraq in 1948 with the return of the musical and singing delegation that was carrying out the mission of entertaining the Iraqi units during the 1948 war in Palestine. He was given the opportunity to appear on television in several songs, and he often appeared on screen as a singer and oud player."
He worked in the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Information as an artistic advisor to the Director of the Department of Musical Arts , Mr. Ali Abdullah, in the late nineties. He left Iraq in 2003 to the United Arab Emirates, where he passed away on Saturday, October 26, 2013 AD, in the United Arab Emirates. United Arab Emirates and his body was buried there.
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