that his heart is at peace and happy... Perhaps the secret of it is that he found a good-hearted girl who consented

to marry him and bore him four children, two boys and two girls, their ages ranging between eight years and one... And what passers-by bestow upon him comes to an average of four liras a day...

"Contentment is a treasure that does not perish" — a phrase we learned as children and use at times — yet I see no obstacle to this obscure man's benefiting from the possibilities of our radio. Why are short record-ings not made of him — musi-cal interludes, for instance?

I asked him, finally, about the tastes of listeners and how these tastes evolve... He answered: they evolve quickly... Two years ago the songs of Farid al-Atrash headed the list of requests: people preferred no one to him... Now what is asked of him most is to play "The Immortal River" by Mohammed Abdel Wahab. Karem Mahmoud's star has dimmed altogether, after he had won great popularity with the song "Samra ya Samra"...

The songs of Fairuz now come in first place, followed by Najat al-Saghira and Sabah...

* * *

I thanked Shaaban for his talk, promised to help him as much as I could, and praised God for having given him an artistic gift that went to work the very hour he lost his sight, so that a noble man like him did not throw himself into the arms of humiliation and want, a burden upon humanity...

Shaaban has a true musical gift... And who knows — one day it may yet blossom in one of his four little ones!!

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