Elias Abourjaily: Poet, Composer, & Singer
Elias Abourjaily: Poet, Composer, & Singer Elias N. Aboujaily, 1957. Brazilian Immigration document. Courtesy of Ancestry.com It's the New Year!!! I can't believe it's 2025 and we've been collecting Arabic records for nearly ten years. Efforts to uncover details of some musicians' lives can be extremely difficult and influenced by several factors -surviving family members, what country, or city a musician called home, and the availability of sources. Locating sources can be especially difficult for someone who lived between several countries and cities. We acquired the LPs of Elias Abourjaily in 2023. At the time, we knew nothing about him but we set out on a quest to find information about this little-known musician. Born in San Nicholas, Honduras or Mazraat El Nahr, Lebanon, on 11 June 1921 to Naimtallah and Badir Abourjaily, we know very little about the early years of Elias N. Abourjailly’s life. He had at least half-one sister, and possibly one brother...