Joseph Sakr

Joseph Sakr is a famous singer from Lebanon. He was born in the year 1942 and passed away in the year 1997. He released his final album entitled "Bema Enno", on the first day of 1997. The album was a very big hit, but unfortunately Sakr died later that year. Joseph Sakr worked closely with Ziad Rahbani on many albums. With the death of Joseph Sakr, Arab listeners lost a sensitive voice. Sakr also worked in a number of comedy plays, in which he sang and acted. Joseph started his career in singing after joining "Al Ferqa al Shaabia al Loubnaniya" which was established by the Rahbani Brothers in the early sixties. Later on Joseph joined Ziad Rahbani in his first play "Sahrieh" in the year 1973. Joseph was part of all of Ziad Rahbani plays, he also sang on many of Ziad's albums. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.