Direct to revolutionary songs: Haitham Abbas: I am in Artistic Mourning

Sudan Events: Magda Hassan

Poet and composer Haitham Abbas has big repertoire of songs. The late Mahmoud Abdel Aziz sang nine songs for him. Haitham Abbas also constitutes the basic building block in the career of artist Nada Al-Qalaa, most of whose songs are words and melodies by Haitham Abbas, along with a number of young artists.
* Coup
However, many variables kept Haitham Abbas away from prolific artistic production, as he believes that there are things
(His world) was ruined, and he excludes himself from the strong who are not affected by the current situations : I am one of the people whose world has been turned upside down, so I no longer know in these moments of my weakness whether my things have developed for the better or for the worse!
* evaluation
Haitham believes that his interests in public artistic, social, and political affairs have taken him far lately: I sometimes think that I have wronged myself and been too late.
For example, my distancing myself from the artistic community and reducing my artistic production to songs in which I was competing with myself made me at the forefront of producers as well. As for how, this is left to others.
*Mourning
It is no secret that his cessation of production has had an impact on his social and professional situation: especially financially, since it is my primary profession.
In fact, since the day the spark of the December Revolution broke out, nearly five years ago, I have moved away from producing emotional singing and become distracted by matters, issues, and topics that have imposed themselves on me and on those like me for the reason that they A duty, so I entered into a state of artistic mourning, distorted by singing for love And for beauty.
* A revolutionary situation
Haitham became poetry and he says it with regret: In eyes other than the eyes of the beloved country and the beloved homeland. I wish only that, but I was swept away by the wave of dry revolutionary singing and its vocabulary, images, and meanings to rouse resolve, struggle, and jihad, and its details, whose templates and meanings are not devoid of parallels and contradictions, their meanings drawn from the vocabulary of conflict, victory, and defeat. Cannons, bullets, the army, blood, betrayal, tribalism, racism, nationalism, etc
* development
At the height of his feeling, he sees that the artistic scene is still offering emotional songs, elegance, repentance, joy, fun and dancing. In this (mid-term of the decade), things have certainly developed, and I have missed things that came to me late in the interests of the art scene and its creators. Certainly, new people have emerged and advanced and become stars on the first stage. I wish them a lot of success and progress.
* conflict
Despite this, Haitham Abbas said that he is sad because he lost important things for the continuity of life, such as the values ​​of love and the spirit of joy, fun, and happiness that he used to present in the form of song packages that people and the arena were accustomed to. But at the same time, he is happy because he responded to the call of an inner voice that prevented him from what he was doing as an instigator. It is on other topics: an internal call that tells me that there are issues that are more important than what I am doing, and the homeland, its issues, and your art’s mission is greater than dancing, rapture, fun, and pleasure. If the call of duty calls you and decrees that you turn your pen, your musical instrument, and your throat into an armored vehicle, a launcher, a bullet, a microphone, a scalpel, a pen, a blackboard, an inkwell, a lecture, and a sermon. And a mosque
* Optimism
Despite this, Haitham is full of optimism and prays to God that this page of our lives will soon be closed, and the country will return, and his poetry will return to its expanses. He expresses a person who is happy from his heart. Not a month goes by without the boy inside him expressing: With a song that is full of joy, naughtiness, and adolescence, which contains a feeling of attachment to the pleasures of life, sweet taste, and the competition of beautiful women, single and melody. And an image and a meaning. The piper dies and his pigeons play.
*Star
It is noteworthy that the poet Haitham Abbas was known in his career for seriousness, perseverance, and staying away from the limelight, even though his words and music gave him stardom.