Biographies: Philemon Wehbe - Music Composer

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He was born in Kfarshima in 1918. He began to work at Radio Jerusalem, as a composer and singer, when he was still a young boy. On the Near East Radio, under the direction of the Palestinian director Sabri al-Sharif, a group of talented people gathered in the early fifties who, made what is called the Lebanese song. They included the Rahbanyin, Zaki Nassif, Tawfiq al-Basha, Halim al-Roumi, Wadih al-Safi, Fairuz, Sabah, Nasri Shams al-Din, along with Philemon and others. He passed away in 1985.

• 24 September 2021
• Toqa Hesham