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Born in 1963 in kerbala, Iraq .
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Art Diploma from Musical Studies
Institute 1990 .
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Member of Iraqi Musical Heritage Group
1986-1989 .
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Member of Iraqi Artists Union 1987 .
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She has estabilshed a reputation
throughout the Arab world for her brilliant
performances of the classical Maqam, aform
of Arab art music traditionally song by men.
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Her powerful voice and her extensive
training in the Iraqi and Arab maqam have
enabled her to perform some of the most
challenging maqam of Arab music.
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She studied with Munir Bashir, the late
Iraqi Ud (lute) Master, who encouraged her
to perform classical Iraqi Maqam despite the
traditional barrier to women.
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She has also studied with sha ubi
Ibrahim,Hussein Al-Athami and Mohammad Gomar.
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She graduated from the Institute of music
in Baghdad,Became the first women teacher of
classical Iraqi Maqam, and currently
specialized in twenty Maqam.
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Her CD( Mawal & Maqamat ) p&s by New
Samarkand is chosen as(Top of theWorld)by
the International Music Maqazine(SongLines)
published in London in October2000. Farida
has one of the most distinguished female
voice Nowadays especiallyin Iraqi song, and
she stands in the formost position .
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