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12 Albums, 12 Stories: Elissa Revisits the Milestones of Her Journey as the Arab World’s ‘Queen of Emotions’
Hit after hit, Elissa’s path to stardom kept opening up new horizons. She tells Billboard Arabia the stories behind her two-decade music career.
Elissa describes the title song, written and composed by Muhammad Al-Rifai and arranged by Jean-Marie Riachi, as an ode to all that love represents, a dreamy tale that expresses heartbreak as much as it does affection. As for “Min Gher Mounasba” (Without a Reason), written by Nader Abdallah and composed by Walid Saad, Elissa strayed from her usual romantic musical line to shine a spotlight instead on a social issue. As she approaches the silver jubilee of a successful music career, marked by many ups and downs and a wide variety of experiments with Arabic pop, Elissa insists that it is only with perseverance that she can maintain her stardom.
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