Abed Azrie or Abed Azrié (Arabic: عابد عازرية; born 1945 in Aleppo) is a French-Syrian singer and composer,[1] who performs Classical music in a variety of languages, including Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish, and other.
[2] In his work he sets ancient and modern Arabic, Sumerian, and other West Asian texts to traditional instruments (such as the ney, kanun, darbuka, violin, flute and lute), and synthesizers.
[2][3] He was born in Aleppo, and after living for a time in Beirut moved to Paris at the age of 22 where he studied Western classical music.
"[5] His music has been featured in the films Al Leja, directed by Ryad Chaia,[6] Elia Suleiman's Chronicle of a Disappearance.
[7] and Florence Strauss's "Between Two Notes" 2006, as well as in Jan Visser's 1975 TV documentary De Droom (The Dream),[8] based on drawings by and interviews with Palestinian refugee children and Palestinian resistance poetry.