Khaled Jubran - Playing at the edge of the abyss
Palestanian Oud and Buzoq player, son of Elias Jubran — Abu Khaled, as he is known, is one of the most skilled oud makers in the Middle East — Khaled is also brother to the inimitable Kamilya Jubran, a remarkably gifted singer of international, if still somewhat minor, fame. At the age of 25 Abu Khaled, a soldering and welding worker in the Galilee village of Rameh, had encountered live oud music for the first time. Borrowing the one oud that existed in the whole village he discovered a talent for reproducing, and eventually mastering, tunes of the classic Arab repertoire. Overtaken by the urge to possess his own specimen of the instrument, Abu Khaled undertook a gargantuan research project, soliciting the help of a host of relations and friends in order to produce, with his own two hands, the perfect oud. Soon after this he progressed onto other instruments, becoming a self- taught artisan of the most refined standards.
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