Ziad Rahbani

What grabs me about Ziad Rahbani is how he refused the easy path. Being the son of Fairuz, the towering voice of the Arab world, could have flattened a lesser artist into a footnote. Instead he fused jazz into Lebanese music and turned the stage into a scalpel, satirizing the sectarian politics of a country tearing itself apart. I admire that kind of nerve, making art that mocks power while the bombs are still falling. His passing in 2025 closed a singular chapter. To me he stands as proof that inherited fame is just raw material, and what you forge from it is the real measure.

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Name (English)

Ziad Rahbani

Name (Japanese)

ジアド・ラハバーニ

Reading

じあど・らはばーに

Born

January 1, 1956 – July 26, 2025

Origin

Antelias, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon

Occupation

composer / singer / jazz musician / pianist / songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziad%20Rahbani
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A2%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8F%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3575465

Tags

• Mount Lebanon Governorate
• composer
• singer
• jazz musician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.