official ziad rahbani channel on Vimeo
And Ziad Rahbani did it again. The legendary Lebanese master of music joined the internet, giving his eager fans what they longed for. His official entrance on the net happened definitely later than that of any other artist, as of February 2019. A full decade after his sister Rima Rahbani decided to randomly scatter, both on Facebook and Youtube, some of the videos she edited, filmed and/or directed for Fairuz during her last twenty years, over several channels: a personal one and an official account for Fairuz,opened in 2009 and later dismissed and replaced by another one, named "Fayrouz Productions". Not forgetting the ra7neb2asawa channel, conceived mainly as a tribute for Assi Rahbani, along with the homonym Facebook page. At the beginning of 2018, she also appeared on Vimeo with another scarsely updated channel, increasing her own presence on the Internet. By directly chosing to open a PRO account on Vimeo, a more professional platform for artists than Youtube, Ziad Rahbani did an exceptional step in showing once more his professionality. Up to now, the account appears constantly updated, containing a dozen of fully filmed concerts (sliced into several parts, due to length constraints) with never seen before pictures and footages of rehearsals at Studio Notta. In his clear attempt to differentiate himself, the videos he is enriching the net with are all in high definition and, obviously, lack of any watermark in the middle, offering his own repertoire to the audience of the Internet. It's literally impossible to hope for something afferent to Fairuz herself to be shown in high quality on Ziad's Vimeo channel but, who knows what will time reveal?
