Shakhbat Shakhabit
| Shakhbat Shakhabit شخبط شخابيط |
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| Studio album by Nancy Ajram | ||||
| Released | June 11, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
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| Length | 30:25 | |||
| Label | EWE Productions | |||
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Shakhbat Shakhabit (Arabic: شخبط شخابيط) is the first studio album made exclusively for children by Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram. It was released on June 11, 2007 by EWE Productions. Ajram has always wanted to dedicate a work for children, and indeed, the album and video came as an important step in her career. The music video was directed by Said El Marouk after "Ehsas Jdeed"'s success with Ajram, was the biggest budget out of all of her clips. It included four songs, "Shakhbat Shakhabit", "Katkouta", "Shater", and "Eid Milad" in the credits. The production of the album created a buzz in the Arab music industry, as several producing companies fell into exclusive-rights arguments with each other for its production.
Commenting on the idea of making a full-length album for kids, Ajram said,
Basically, the album was ready since 1998 and was offered to seven different singers, some completely rejected it, while some cancelled just a few days before they started recording. According to Egyptian songwriter Awad Badawi, who wrote six tracks in the album, Hisham Abbas asked him to write an album for children and asked Walid Saad compose the music. After they finished working on the album, they gave the songs to Abbas who ultimately retreated and gave no reason whatsoever. The album was then offered to Medhat Saleh, Iman Bahr Darwish, Sono Cairo, Ehab Tawfik, Amal Maher, Aline Khalaf and Mohammad Fouad but none of them got down to recording it. But just before Awad gave up on the album, Ajram called Saad and told him that she intends to make an album for children, he answered that he has four songs prepared already, after hearing them she insisted that this album was hers and she immediately recorded it and added two more Egyptian songs, "Kart Shahn" and "Risala Lil Aalam". Ajram then wanted a Lebanese song so she contacted Wassim Bustani who composed "Shater". Kuwaiti composer Yaacoub Al Khubayzi who previously composed Ajram's successful Khaliji hit, "Mishtaga Leik", in her previous album "Ya Tabtab...Wa Dallaa", also composed the only Khaliji song in the album, "Kellena".
The seven-minute music video, which features four different tracks from the album, was filmed in Beirut on 9 and 10 March 2007, with Lebanese director Said El Marouk, as a second collaboration with Ajram, after "Ehsas Jdeed". Ajram played three different rols in the video, the first one is butterfly, mother and kindergarten teacher who tells the story portraying a fairytale.
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