Two years since the passing of the Kurdish artist Salah Rasoul

ARK News… Friday, October 27, 2023, marked the second anniversary of the departure of Kurdish artist Salah Rasoul, one of the pillars of Kurdish art and folklore, after a struggle with illness.

A brief about his life:
The artist Salah Rasoul was born in the Antariya neighborhood in the city of Qamishlo in Syrian Kurdistan. He began his artistic career playing and singing in 1968. He wrote poems and sang and composed dozens of Kurdish nationalist and folkloric songs, in which he glorified Kurdish symbols, especially “the immortal Barzani,” the Kurdistan revolutions, and the tragedies to which the Kurds were exposed.

According to artistic sources in Qamishlo, he is the first artist to introduce Western instruments to parties and weddings in the city of Qamishlo (Organ - Guitar), in addition to the Bizuq and Tanbur as Kurdish and oriental instruments, in 1982. He founded his artistic band in 1970, sang at popular weddings and became popular with the masses.

The distinguished artist Salah Rasoul was known as one of the pillars of the Kurdish folk song, especially “Al-Shaykhani,” which laid its foundations in the beautiful era of art in Syrian Kurdistan. Throughout his artistic career, he was exposed to pressure from the Syrian regime.

He left behind nearly 50 cassettes, including the songs he wrote and composed:
-We are here - Heviya Kurdan Barzan e - Canê - Dara Mirada - Lo Bira
- There is a lot of fire in me- I have a good heart - Adar - It's almost Minus - There's a lot of food in it - I love it so much - I love it - I love it

He took refuge in Germany in the 1990s. He was a member of the technical committee within the administrative body of the Barzani Cultural Center in Hannover.

The artist Salah Rasul Rasoul, who was called the “Dean of Kurdish Folk Singing,” passed away on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, after a struggle with illness in a hospital in the city of Essen, Germany

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