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| birth_date = {{circa|1910–1912}}
| birth_place = [[Sur, Oman|Sur]], Oman
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| death_date = 1979
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'''Salim Rashid Suri''' (between 1910 and 1912, [[Sur, Oman]] – 1979, Sur, Oman)<ref name=QatLib/> was a 20th-century [[Sawt (music)|ṣawt]] singer and [[oud]] player from [[Oman]]. He is particularly associated with the ṣawt genre called Ṣawt al-Khaleej ("Voice of the Gulf").

==Career and personal life==
As a teenager, Suri worked on sailing ships plying the [[Persian Gulf]] and [[Indian Ocean]]. He first started as a [[Maidan (music)|maidan]] singer; he learned ṣawt by listening to phonograph records of performances by [[Abdullatif al-Kuwaiti]].<ref name=BBC/><ref name=BritLib/> Continuing to travel widely, he became known as "The Singing Sailor".<ref name=BBC/>

Suri's family was conservative and did not approve of his musical inclinations; his brother even threatened to shoot him if he did not give up singing.<ref name=QatLib/><ref name=BBC/><ref name=BritLib/> He consequently moved to [[Mumbai]] where he worked first as a [[boilerman]], then as a mercantile [[broker]] and translator in the trade between Arab and Indian merchants.<ref name=QatLib/> During this time Suri continued to practice and perfect his musical art, integrating Indian influences into his music – some of his lyrics were in [[Urdu]] as well as his native [[Arabic]],<ref name=BritLib/> helping him secure a steady sale of his records (he recorded twelve [[78 rpm|78-rpm]] shellac [[gramophone record]]s in the early 1930s)<ref name=QatLib/> to an Indian as well as an Arabic audience.<ref name=QatLib/><ref name=BBC/>

In 1943, Salim Rashid Suri married an Indian woman and in the late 1940s he and his wife relocated to [[Bahrain]] where he enjoyed success as a performer and set up his own record label and recorded other musicians. He continued to be a leading creator and exponent of the Ṣawt al-Khaleej ("Voice of the Gulf") variety of ṣawt. However, the advent of [[vinyl record]]s ruined his record business and he returned to Oman in 1971 where [[Qaboos bin Said al Said|the Sultan]] made him a consultant for cultural affairs. He died in 1979, considered by then a beloved cultural treasure of Oman.<ref name=QatLib/><ref name=BBC/><ref name=BritLib/>

==See also==
* [[Lists of musicians]]

==References==
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<ref name=BritLib>{{cite web |url=http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2013/11/the-singing-sailor-salim-rashid-suri.html |title=The Singing Sailor – Salim Rashid Suri |author=Margaret Makepeace |date=November 26, 2013 |work=Untold Lives Blog |publisher=British Library |access-date=November 30, 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=QatLib>{{cite web |url=http://www.qdl.qa/en/singing-sailor-salim-rashid-suri-%E1%B9%A3awt-musician-oman |title=The Singing Sailor, Salim Rashid Suri: A Ṣawt Musician from Oman |author=Rolf Killius |date= |work=Qatar Digital Library |publisher=Qatar National Library |access-date=November 30, 2014}}</ref>

<ref name=BBC>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-30248123 |title=The singing sailor of Oman |work=Round The Bend |publisher=BBC |access-date=November 30, 2014}}</ref>
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[[Category:1910s births]]
[[Category:1979 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century men]]
[[Category:Bahraini male singers]]
[[Category:Deaths in Asia]]
[[Category:Expatriate musicians in India]]
[[Category:Omani expatriates in Bahrain]]
[[Category:Omani sailors]]
[[Category:Omani singers]]
[[Category:Oud players]]
[[Category:People from Sur, Oman]]
[[Category:20th-century singers]]
[[Category:20th-century male singers]]

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