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Elissa Announces Release Date of Her New Album


Tue 30 Jun 2020 | 08:54 AM
Yara Sameh

Lebanese recording artist, Elissa has announced when her highly anticipated next album will finally be released, after being postponed several times due to coronavirus.

Elissa took to Twitter to share a new photo of herself from the RotanaMusic headquarters, the production company producing the album.

The 47-year-old artist announced that her new album would be released on Eid Al Adha.

"At Rotana Music headquarters finalising my upcoming album's communication strategy. The album will be out on Eid Al Adha #Elissa2020 (see you soon) ❤ @DeezerMENA," she tweeted on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/elissakh/status/1277557842065719296?s=20

Everything to know about Elissa's upcoming album

Early May, Elissa announced that she has finished recording the last song in her new album after 40 days of delay because of the coronavirus.

She shared the news on Twitter along with a new photo of herself with her manager and several friends as they celebrated the recording of the last song in the album.

The Lebanese recording artist had released her first track, “Hanghani Kaman Wi Kaman” (we will sing more and more) from the upcoming album, which was postponed indefinitely due to the spread of Coronavirus.

Hanghani Kaman Wi Kaman is by the lyrics of Shady Nour and composed by Mohamed Yehia.

Elissa recorded Hanghani Kaman Wi Kaman while in self-quarantine due to coronavirus, which was presented in a video conference-style, and featured her in pink PJs.

The music video also featured Lebanese pop star Haifa Wehbe, who is also self-quarantining at home, along with other inpiduals from their respective homes.

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On May 25, Rotana released the second track from Elissa’s upcoming album, entitled “Ahwet El Madi” on its YouTube channel.

The track is a Lebanese dialect song; it is by the lyrics of Seham Shaasha and composed by Mohamad Rahim.

Furthermore, the Lebanese recording artist has also added a French dialect song in her upcoming album entitled, “mourir sur scene”, which means “Die On Scene” in English— in the French dialect for her great love for French singer Dalida.

Elissa previously revealed that her new album will contain four songs in the Lebanese dialect and the rest will be in the Egyptian.

The album will also feature a song about her life, as was the case in her latest album, “Ila Kol Elli Bihebbouni” (To All the Ones Who Love me).

Moreover, Elissa is also preparing to release a new song from her upcoming album, which title remain secret as a  surprise to her fans.

The song is performed in the Lebanese dialect and is by the lyrics of Amir Teima, composed by Ramy Gamal, and distributed by Karim Abdel Wahab.

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The album is set to be the last in her career, as the artist announced on August 19, 2019, that she will be quitting the music industry.

“I am preparing this new album with a lot of love and passion. The reason is that it will be the last one in my career. I am announcing this with a heavy heart but with a lot of conviction because I can’t work in a field that is similar to mafias. I can’t be productive anymore,” she tweeted on Twitter.

In the new album, she cooperates with a large number of poets and composers including Adel Hakki, Mohamed Rahim, Baha El Din, and Mohamed Yehia.

She is also collaborating with a large number of poets and composers she previously worked with such as Amir Teima, Nader Abd Allah, and Walid Said.

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The 47-year-old artist’s latest album is “Ila Kol Elli Bihebbouni” (To All the Ones Who Love me), which was released by Rotana production، on July 24, 2018.

It also topped Twitter’s most trending list in Jordan and the UAE, as twitter users hashtags “#Elissa_Album_2018”, and flooded the social network with parts of the album songs.

The Lebanese artist had recorded the 16 songs in the album in both the Egyptian and Lebanese dialects, including singer-actress Warda Al-Jazairia’s song “Wahashtony”.

She cooperated with a large number of Poets and composers including Amir Teima, Ramy Gamal, Nader Abdallah, and Walid Said.

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It is worth mentioning that Elissa is considered one of the most talented voices in Lebanon and the Middle East.

She has been the highest-selling female Middle Eastern artist since 2005. She has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

The singer is also one of the richest celebrities in Lebanon, with a reported estimated wealth of over $40 million.

She is known for her talent and her frequent themes of love within her discography.

The singer is often referred to as ‘Maliket El Ehsas’ (Queen of Emotions) by fans and the media.

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Rotana on August 7, 2018, helped to unveil Elissa’s breast cancer battle with music video “Ila Kol Elli Bihebbouni” which also holds the title of her latest album, on its YouTube channel, a fight she bravely faced two years ago, then.

The music video exploded a huge secret in the singer’s life that she kept away from her fans, which included voice piece with her real voice to describe to details of her illness while she cries, and videos of her chemotherapy sessions.

In 2018, Elissa had undergone surgery in her right hand in Brussels, Belgium after it got swollen as a result of the withdrawal of water from her body during her cancer treatment.

Lebanese newspapers reported that the Lebanese recording artist traveled to Germany to undergo another surgery in her hand as she was still suffering from complications that occurred during her breast cancer treatment.