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The "wounded voice" fell silent.

Dr. Parween Habib

16 May 2023

I always had great respect for the Kuwaiti artist Abdul Karim Abdul Qader, who passed away a few days ago. Many singers admire their voices, but their personalities are marred by the defects of fame from the vanity of our time and grow up at other times, but the owner of the «wounded voice» remained bound by the mud of humility, so it is not strange to remain an employee in the Ministry of Interior and then in the Ministry of Information, Department of Music until he retired, at a time when his voice captures the hearts of lovers, and consoles the night of the wounded in the Gulf, and even in the entire Arab world.

And talking about his humility touched him in a Bedouin of the beautiful luck that brought me together honored in the GCC Award in the field of creativity in 2015, as he initiated me saying gently a father puts a caring hand on the shoulder of his daughter that he knows me and knows the programs I presented, and I love in my interest in the guests and my respect for them, and I exchanged love with love when I told him of my bow and great appreciation for what he poured into the Gulf Song Cup in particular and the Arab in general of captivating grief, which is the field of his manifestation, he once said: "I am afraid that if I sing for joy I will let down the listener who is eager to hear sadness and sorrow."

He wrote for him great poets such as Khaled Al-Faisal, Mubarak Al-Hudaibi and Saher, and composed his stars of distinguished melodies such as Abd Al-Rab Idris, Talal Maddah and Mustafa Al-Awadi, and formed with the poet Badr Bouresli a successful artistic duo in the seventies, and despite this fame, which was the product of his voice alone, he was not rushing to light or honors, but he preferred to reach his songs through recordings instead of concerts, whether public or private, so he did not have a business manager nor all that imaginary aura published around them owners Talents (Text Sleeve), who sing with their clothes and accessories instead of their voices.

Production companies flocked to him to the extent that in some years of his brilliance he released two albums in the same year, the thirst for romance and warm sadness that is similar to the father's bosom made his songs messages of lovers in the Gulf nights, it is enough to close our eyes as we listen to the art of the Samaritan with his wounded voice to smell the smell of incense and share with us the session henna, bisht and a sprinkle of rose water. A complete atmosphere with its rituals is attended as soon as his voice resounds: «I am Reddit for your eyes, I am Reddit», or «Marni Marni», which Hussein Al Jassmi re-sung, to prove that such songs are still able to draw the attention of a generation for which «Social Media» made wax statues that melt as soon as the sun of the original word and elaborate melody see them.

Abdul Karim Abdul Qadir was "dragging the sound from the wound of Brah", to make our hearts and tears whisper about his loss: «Spiritual, tell him, you see us what we forgot who we knew».

He didn't have a business manager or all that imaginary aura spread around them by talented people (Text Sleeve), who sing with their clothes and accessories instead of their voices.

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