๐๏ธ Omar Al-Abdallat, The Sound of Jordan๏
Omar Hussein Al-Abdallat, a Jordanian singer from the city of Salt, was born in the northern region of Marka and spent most of his life there. He started singing since he was nine years old at parties and weddings and learned to play the lute to sing Jordanian heritage songs and songs in the Gulf, and he stuck to his artistic ambition to reach the level of Senior technician.
Omar Al-Abdullah released a song for the homeland, which is one of his first songs, which was the reason for his fame, which is (Hashemi Hashemi), during the reign of King Hussein bin Talal, and after that, he participated with the Maโan Folk Troupe, which is one of the most popular groups in the world. At the time, he released a song in the early nineties called โYa Saadโ.
He released more than one patriotic and emotional album, as he sang Jordanian songs such as: โOur Army, the Homeland Armyโ, the song โGhaz Al-Bayariqโ, the song โArmy of Heroesโ, and โKif Al-Himmaโ, and sang for the struggling people in Palestine during the conditions of Gaza the song โComing Comingโ He also sang the โQuds of the Homelandโ song โWe are Palestinianโ.
Al-Abdallat participated in more than one operetta, most notably: โThe Arab Dreamโ, โBaghdad Donโt be in Painโ, โThe Arab Conscienceโ, โVoice of Peaceโ, and participated in many festivals at the local and Arab levels.
In 2019, Omar Al-Abdullah was a guest on one of the programs, and the presenter of the program tried to make him fall into the trap of questions to find out if he considered that the State of Qatar supported โterrorism.โ He asked him if he would be allowed to sing in it if he agreed to the 13 conditions of the blockading countries, to which Al-Abdullah replied by saying: Qatar is an Arab country, and I do not know these conditions.โ
The announcer returned and asked him if he sang in Qatar after the crisis, โbecause it supports terrorism,โ he replied, โ I did not sing after what happened, but not for this reason.โ Omarโs answers were highly praised by the Jordanians, who considered that Saudi Arabia was trying to exploit them in their crisis with Qatar, through its media.