Fairuz has performed once or more in each of many countries around the globe including Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, France, The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, The United States of America, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and of course, Lebanon.
Fairuz has performed in many internationally famous and prestigious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1962, the New York Carnegie Hall in 1971, the London Palladium in 1978, L'Olympia de Paris in 1979, London's Royal Festival Hall in 1986, the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles (1971, 1981, and 2003), the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C (1981 and 1987)... among many others (for the complete concert chronology click on Fairuz Concerts).
Fairuz has yielded record-breaking performances month after month, year after year in almost every concert she has held around the world. Fairuz, Assi, and Mansour have become the most famous and dominant music production phenomenon of their time, as they spread beyond the Arab world to Europe, the Americas, and Australia.
In 1969, as popular as it was, Fairuz's music was banned from radio stations in Lebanon for six months by order of the Lebanese government because she refused to sing at a private concert in the honor of the Algerian president Houari Boumédienne during his visit to Lebanon. Despite that, Fairuz's popularity soared higher. Fairuz made it clear that she would not sing to any one individual, neither king nor president, but she would always sing to the people.
During the Lebanese civil War (1975-1990), Fairuz never left Lebanon to live abroad and did not hold any concerts there because it pained her greatly to see the Lebanese suffering and dying at the hands of foreigners and their own. She would not sing for them, them who were killing each other and destroying Lebanon. However, during that time period, Fairuz held numerous very successful record-breaking concerts and tours in numerous countries around the world. Fairuz's ability to tour internationally without ever leaving Lebanon was considered quite remarkable by many of her contemporaries.
After the artistic divorce between Fairouz and the Rahbani Brothers, Fairuz carried on with her son, composer Ziad Rahbani, his friend the lyricist Joseph Harb, and composer Philemon Wehbe. Together, they forged new albums that yielded tremendous success reinforcing Fairuz's image as the constantly evolving number one Arab singer. Joseph Harb gave Fairuz some of his best lyrics/poems while Philemon Wehbe offered her timeless purely oriental music cherished by the masses. Ziad, on the other hand, offered Fairuz very original jazz-tinted songs. Once again, Fairuz proved herself as the possessor of the most beautiful female voice of all, a voice that could render all genres of music with superior flexibility and heart-piercing emotions. During the Lebanese civil war, her voice was the only thin ray of hope left in a country engulfed in darkness, chaos, fear and uncertainty.
In the 1990's, Fairuz held a number of large-scale concerts, most notably the historic concert held as part of The International Baalbeck Festivals in 1998 after 25 years of absence. Another huge success was the massive concert at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Arena (1999) which broke box-office sales records and was attended by over 16,000 Lebanese who flocked the city from all over the American continent and Europe. Fairuz also held sold-out concerts for four consecutive summers at the Beiteddine International Festival (Lebanon) from 2000 to 2003.
At the age of 71, and to the amazement of her fans and critics, Fairouz still has the ability to sing perfectly and to enchant millions for decades. After undergoing several tests in United States, Fairouz seems to have solid vocal cords that have not changed much in structure with aging, which is a rarity among recording artists.
Fairuz possesses a large repertoire of more than 1500 songs (nearly 800 released), has sold around 100 million records around the world[citation needed], and has been offered prestigious awards and titles over the years
1 صباح و مساء (Sabah Wu Masa) 4:36
2 شو بخاف (Shu Bkhaf) 5:57
3 صبحي الجيز (Sobhil Jiz) 4:00
4 تنذكر ما تنعاد (Tinzakar Ma Tinaad) 4:48
5 يا مريم (Ya Mariamu) 5:48
6 انا فزعانة (Ana Fezaani) 4:03
7 بيذكر بالخريف (Bizzaker Bil Kharif) 5:32
8 لا والله (La Wallah) 4:04
9 ان شا الله ما بو شي (Inshallah Ma Bu Shi) 3:49
10 2 بيذكر بالخريف (Bizzaker Bil Kharif) -Take 2 1:35
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