Walaa Al Jundi – Melodies, Inhabited Silences
Walaa Al Jundi is a Lebanese singer renowned for her rich, soulful voice and distinctive fusion of traditional Arabic Fus’ha poetry, classical Arabic music, and contemporary rhythms. Born in Lebanon in 1994, she discovered her passion for music at an early age and went on to cultivate a unique artistic identity deeply rooted in the emotional depth and lyrical beauty of Arabic poetry and melody.
At the heart of a program devoted to the dialogue of imaginations and the richness of heritage, a vocal presence of striking rarity is poised to set the city resonating. With Walaa Al Jundi, Arabic song regains its full depth, in a sensitive dialogue between the richness of the great Eastern repertoires and an interpretation marked by modernity.
For her first appearance in Montreal, Walaa Al Jundi embodies this luminous encounter between the rigour of the great tarab masters and the freedom of visceral singing. Her voice, at once expansive and intimate, unfolds a register of rare power, where every inflection becomes the vessel of pure emotion. A master of the subtle art of sung poetry, she does more than restore the essence of the great classical works: she reinvents them, breathing new passion into them and setting the memory of a golden age in dialogue with today’s sensibility.
Some voices need not be understood to move us. Walaa Al Jundi’s possesses that singular power. Under her inflections, Arab song regains its full depth, in a sensitive dialogue between the richness of the great repertoires and an interpretation imbued with modernity.
November 7, 2026 at 8:00pm
Cinquième Salle
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