IRANIAN WOMAN

Anita Nezami

The beautiful mystique of Arabian women introduced herself to me in Morocco.  Each country's ways produced a particular and distinct quality that said this woman belonged to this tribe, this group, this family. It was remarkable how the music, and the vocalist unwrapped the stories of the poetry composed within the women. With skill they sung to my heart about the spirit of women, and lovers in one of the most beautiful of languages in the world: Arabic or Farsi. Numerous singers sang with such precise depth about the mysteries of female bliss, loneliness  pain, intrigue, love, want, and about the desires within men for the women they carried within their hearts from one lofty place to another. 

Fairouz, Om Kalthoum. These are the singers, and others in me since my early years caressing what needs to praise, probe, revere, and understand the women I love and like. - Gregory E. Woods  3.8.13

Anita Nezami

FAIRUZ

"Fairuz, was one of the early and powerful influences in my young life. As a young teenager her poetry of voice and her music of soul emptied me of menace, fear, and melancholy and replaced it with deep thoughts and attached me to the Arabic worldview the way her peer, Oum Kaltoum, did without the two even knowing I existed! I was changed by their music!

... plus I had a crush on her. I think at the time I would have melted into chocolate and cherries had I been in her presence; so powerful were her eyes, and how pleasant must have been her breath if she had stood before me taking mine away as I stared and stared wondering what to say to so beautiful a woman! That's is how I felt and thought back then every time I heard her music played in the Medina, on the radio, or at home." - Gregory E. Woods

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