From the Jews of Lebanon blog: Rare Clip: Lebanese Jewish Musician Haiim Moishe singing the hit that all my cousins sang and danced to at their weddings in the 80s. "Linda, Linda."
My question to my Arab readers - is he singing in a different accent/dialect? Because I don't understand the words in some places, and the accent sounds "different". My cousins told me this was originally an Iraqi song. (Update - no they didn't. I'm confusing this song with "Lela, lela") What's the scoop?
Haim Moshe is a Yemenite Jew who lives in Israel. The arabivc dialect he sings in is the Yemenite dialect, that's why it sounds different.
Posted by: Eva Broman | June 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM