By Timour Azhari and Laila Bassam
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Ziad Rahbani, the Lebanese composer and musician who constructed a definite Lebanese sound from Western and Arabic musical roots, and whose sardonic critique of the nation’s sectarian politics rang true to Lebanese throughout the divides, has died.
He was 69.
Rahbani was much-loved throughout Lebanon and his phrases remained related throughout generations, from those that grew up with him through the 1975-90 Civil Warfare, to the post-war technology who’ve struggled to shake the conflict’s legacy.
He handed away at a hospital in Beirut on Saturday morning after a protracted sickness, the hospital mentioned.
(Reporting by Timour Azhari and Laila Bassam; Enhancing by Jan Harvey)