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Abed Azrie
Person · male · France · Aleppo · born 1945 · recording since 1977
Syrian singer
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Also known as عابد عازرية · Abed Azerīya
Timeline
8 events▣ Album 6◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1
1940s
1970s
· Debut release
Debut release: Épopée de Gilgamesh
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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1990s
2000s
2010s
Biography
English biography244 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1299219224
Biography
Abed Azrie or Abed Azrié (Arabic: عابد عازرية; born 1945) is a French-Syrian singer and composer, who performs classical music in a variety of languages, including Arabic, English, French, German, Spanish, and other. He describes his works as not belonging to any particular music tradition. 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.
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. While there he translated classical poetry, such as the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, into French. He has stated that he prefers to live in the West, saying in a 2000 interview that he has an "inability to work in the Arab countries, in which the way people live is still conditioned by halal and haram. Here I can produce contemporary art, I can work in freedom, and there is 'motion' around what I produce: journalism, concerts, programme...Nobody tells me to write a song for a specific political occasion."
His music has been featured in the films Al Leja, directed by Ryad Chaia, Elia Suleiman's Chronicle of a Disappearance. and Florence Strauss's "Between Two Notes" 2006, as well as in Jan Visser's 1975 TV documentary De Droom (The Dream), based on drawings by and interviews with Palestinian refugee children and Palestinian resistance poetry.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 9 | 81.7th |
| Studio albums | 7 | 87.5th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 8 | 84.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 35 | 74.2th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (9 release groups · 7 studio albums)
Albums · 7
1977 · studio album
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Tracklist · 33 tracks · 1:15:05
Disc 1A1Prologue3:45A2Gilgamesh2:41A3Enkidou3:15A4Le chasseur1:10A5La femme2:00A6Paroles de la femme1:25A7Réponse d'Enkidou1:20A8Les bergers2:40B1Ourouk1:40B2La lutte2:05B3L'amitié0:30B4L'aventure1:05B5La vaillance2:25B6Les préparatifs de l'expédition0:55B7La forêt des cèdres3:55B8Ishtar3:00B9Refus de Gilgamesh3:50Disc 2C1Colère d'Ishtar0:50C2Le taureau céleste0:40C3Lamentation d'Ishtar0:45C4Retour des deux héros1:22C5Songes d'Enkidou1:42C6Mort d'Enkidou3:55C7Pleurs de Gilgamesh3:15C8L'homme-scorpion2:15C9Shamash2:40D1Sidouri2:50D2L'humaine condition2:55D3Our-shanabi0:30D4Outa-napishtim2:35D5La leçon humaine3:50D6Le déluge4:25D7Epilogue2:551990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 59:23
1Legend of the Bird4:152I Kiss the Ground6:183Love Me4:434Flower of Alchemy5:375Divine Love5:436Dizziness4:487Laughing4:418Murmur of the Breeze5:019Valiance2:4410To Last4:2011Woman11:131994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 52:51
1Suerte4:262Entre esperanza y deseo5:193Entre tus manos6:114Vida y muerte1:595Daño y alivio3:326Sabio amigo8:157Belleza2:508Gacela6:209Grabado7:1510Luna4:5711Sol de suerte1:471996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 1:02:44
1Fou De Layla (Qays)5:492Eau Et Vent (Omar Khayyam)5:473Croyance (Ibn Arabi)5:514Errance (Tarafa)7:135Le Temps (Adonis)6:296La Fièvre (Al Moutanabbi)6:387Adviendra (Ounsi Al Haj)5:108Pareil À L'eau (Al Ma 'arri)5:4410Aveu (Anonyme Andalou)7:179Être (Abdelkader Al Djazairi)6:462004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 43:48
1Fille de la vigne3:272Alchimie4:183Certitude4:564Entre hier et demain4:275Royaume3:236Tyran4:397Eau et vent4:448Caravane des jours4:229Ali9:322012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 2:23:20
Disc 11Semaï pour Adonis5:062L'autre nostalgie4:293Les chemins3:244Fleur de l'alchimie4:595Commencement du chemin3:146Pont de larmes3:367Terre d'absence3:298Poètes5:089Phare éteint4:3610Le vieux pays3:2911Commencement de la parole5:0912Je vis avec la lumière4:2713Le temps6:3914Un chant3:54Disc 21Abed Azrié chante Adonis live1:06:162Bonus2:233Interview13:02Mystic {D'après des poèmes soufis du IXe au XIIIe siècle}
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:05:41
1Al-Hallaj / Je suis celui que j'aime4:502Ibn Arabi / Perplexité4:183Al-Hallaj / Mourir d'amour3:324Sohrawardi / Nostalgie3:455Ibn Arabi / Croyance5:116Rabiah Al-Adawiyyah / Amour divin4:027Ibn Al-Fared / Cantique de l'amour5:328Al-Hallaj / Souffle de la brise5:099Ibn Arabi / Epître de l'aimé4:1310Al-Hallaj / Eloignement3:3911Ibn Arabi / Etreinte3:2912Shibli / Ivresse3:5613Niffari / Proximité5:3514Ibn Al-Fared / Passion8:30
Album · 2
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Suerte Live in BerlinSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 26 tracks · 1:18:311Semai Por Buleria I3:01 2Semai Por Buleria II2:52 3Suerte I3:38 4Suerte II3:34 5Entre Esperanza Y Deseo8:52 6Belleza3:32 7Entre Tus Manos I1:31 8Entre Tus Manos II1:55 9Entre Tus Manos III4:54 10Entre Tus Manos IV2:31 11Entre Tus Manos V4:14 12Sabio Amigo I2:29 13Sabio Amigo II2:49 14Sabio Amigo III1:26 15Sabio Amigo IV5:10 16Sabio Amigo V1:08 17Grabado I1:11 18Grabado II2:12 19Grabado III2:43 20Gacela I1:35 21Gacela II1:39 22Gacela III2:07 23Gacela IV3:13 24Luna4:53 25Sol de Suerte3:17 26Final2:05 | Live | 1998 | |
| 2009 | Chants d'amour et d'ivresse (live à Radio France)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 17 tracks · 1:30:57Disc 1 1Suerte3:46 2Alchimie5:15 3Fou de Layla6:36 4Croyance4:47 5Certitude4:46 6Éclat de soleil (épopée de Gilgames)4:41 7Durer (épopée de Gilgames)4:05 8Souffle de la brise7:48 Disc 21La parole (évangile selon Saint Jean)3:03 2La vigne véritable (évangile selon Saint Jean)2:46 3Amour divin4:27 4Eau et vent4:48 5Luna5:01 6Gacela6:41 7Royaume3:08 8Pareil à l'eau7:15 9Femme12:04 | Live | 2009 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Abed Azrie head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 9 | 81.7th |
| Studio albums | 7 | 87.5th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 8 | 84.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 35 | 74.2th |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abed-Azrie-1.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/abd51f20-f80d-4114-b139-5b71bc4bbce9discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/abd51f20-f80d-4114-b139-5b71bc4bbce9core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2821467seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abed_Azriebiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abed_Azrie
Why this artist is in the database
- List of French singers
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Image: Victor Bocquillon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q2821467 · MusicBrainz: abd51f20-f80d-4114-b139-5b71bc4bbce9
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