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Rita William[edit]

Rita William (Born in 1983) is an Iraqi singer and composer based on modern folklore, oriental jazz, chants in different languages such as Arabic, Aramaic and interfaith dialogue.

Personal life[edit]

Rita William was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1983 in Karrada region. At the age of nine, she was selected among her school peers to represent Baghdad in a vocal competition in 1994. Rita has been singing at a variety of local events, including fairs, competitions, and national events. She married the artist Ragheed William, neighbors of childhood at an early age, and they moved to Germany, Cologne, western Germany, then they had two sons, Rafi and Rabi. Rita studied and graduated in Cologne, Germany, and obtained a certificate in Media Design. Rita practices this profession as UX/UI Design alongside art.

Career path:

Since 1998, Rita has held many concerts in different parts of Iraq with the Church's Charity and Peace team, and one of the most prominent participants is a "Peace Concert" at the Conferences Palace in Baghdad.

Professionalism:

In 2001, Rita moved to Cologne and continued her passion for music in Germany as well, where she participates in folkloric and church cultural festivals and interfaith dialogue.

Rita William has also made successful world tours. She visited and exhibited in Canada, France, Holland, Belgium, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt.

Its business:

sirhat:

• Longing of My Heart (Iraqi and Gulf Hymns) - 2005

• Arabiscan (voice over with Cairo Steps) - 2014

• Golden Wing with Nowruz Band 2018

Solo songs:

• Cha Wayne Ahlinh

• Come on Come on

• Child of the Wave / composed by Bassem Hawar and lyrics by Haider Abdel Khader

• Good morning / composed by Hamed Al-Rubaie and the words of Daoud Al-Ghanam

• Your Love is Like Night / composed by Rita William and lyrics by Fadi Al-Sayegh

• Dark / composed by Zaidoun Hussein and lyrics by Khaled Ibrahim

Miscellaneous

• A song book - with the German Trimum Foundation

• Use her voice with Heatup2 ready-made audio library

Instruments you play:

Al-Bandir: As an accompanist in some of her concerts

Organ, harmonica and guitar as a hobby

The most important concerts and festivals I participated in:

Germany

• Karl Jenkins Stabat Mater Project with the Würzburg Philharmonic - Fulda

• Concert titled Bach Goes East - Fulda City

• Concert at Beethoven House - Bonn

• Concert at the Culture and Convention Center - Kornfestheim

• Church Festival at Berlin University of the Arts

• Church Festival in Dortmund

• Opening of a song book with concert at the Dortmund City Congress

• Opening of the 13th International Film Festival - Heidelberg

• Stadium Festival - Weimar

• Spring of Cultures Festival in Cologne

• X-Orient Fox Festival in Stuttgart from 2007-2009

• Romanian Summer Festival - Cologne

• World Christian Music Festival - Bonn

• Summer Festival in Bielefeld

• Festival of the Senses Exhibition in Limburg

• Concert at the University of Science - Ludwigsburg

• Concert in the Imperial Hall - Frankfurt

• 10th Ecclesiastical Music Festival - Cologne

• Concert for Choir Day with 3 orchestras in Berlin

• Foundation stone laying ceremony for one house in Berlin

• Festival im Vogelviertel in Bielefeld

• Mediterranean Festival on the Rhine in Cologne

Palestine - Al Kamandjati Festival

• Municipal Theater - Ramallah

• Faculty of Arts and Culture at Dar Al-Kalima University - Bethlehem

• Edward Said National Conservatory of Music - Jerusalem

Egypt - Arab Music Festival

• Cairo Opera

• Institute of Arabic Music - Cairo

France

• A concert in Paris sponsored by SAT7 channel.

• Workshops and parties in Mont-Saint-Michel - Normandy

Concerts in other countries

Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, Lebanon

Programs featured in:

Express program on Al Sharqiya channel

Al Jazeera program this morning on Al Jazeera

Music program on Nile TV

Iraqi program on Al-Iraqiya channel

Arabesque TV

Songs and Ajbani program on Sawt Al Arab Radio from Cairo

Certificates of Appreciation:

Certificates of thanks and appreciation and a higher certificate of appreciation for spreading cultural awareness and the thought of love, brotherhood and peace from Al-Sawab magazine, Kirkuk - Iraq

A certificate of thanks and appreciation from the Peace Academy in Germany

Shield of Culture and Peace from the Arab Group for Peace

Al-Salama Association for Social Development - Morocco

Ya Hala Magazine - Lebanon

song book.

Rita participated in the preparation of Arabic songs and hymns for the book Song, which was released in Germany and contains several languages

CPFA has organized numerous events under Chatham House rules and has hosted over a hundred personalities such as: Zbigniew Bzrezinski, Kofi Annan, Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, Abdullah Gul, Jose Maria Aznar , Sebastian Pinera, Romano Prodi, Brent Scowcroft, Richard Holbrooke, Shimon Peres, Mohammed ElBaradei, Louis Freeh, Turki Al Faisal since 2010. CPFA has also initiated the Astana Platform for peace talks in Syria as well as many other confidential talks on the topics of Syria and Libya.