1990s-presentFairuz remains to be the most prominent living singer in the Arab world. After the great Umm Kulthum (singer), no singer in the Arab world is as beloved as Lebanon's Fairuz. (Gerald Seligman, from The Legendary Fairuz cd cover).
In the 1990’s, Fairuz produced three albums and held a number of large-scale concerts, most notably the historic concert held at Beirut's Martyr's Square (September 1994) to launch the rebirth of the downtown district that was ravaged by the civil war. She appeared at The International Baalbeck Festival in 1998 after 25 years of absence where she performed the highlights of 3 very successful plays that were presented in the 1960s and 1970s.
Fairuz works now exclusively with her composer son Ziad.
An Album, (wala Keef), was her latest. It released in 2002.
Another huge success was the massive concert at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Arena (1999) which broke box-office sales records[citation needed] and was attended by over 16,000 Lebanese who flocked to the city from all over the American continent and Europe. Ever since, Fairuz has held sold-out concerts at the Beiteddine International Festival (Lebanon) from 2000 to 2003, the United States (2003), Montreal (2005), Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Baalbeck, BIEL (2006) and Athens (2007).
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