Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p ""We Will Not Surrender (We Win or We Die)" is a song by Libyan-Irish musician Rami El Kalah with his friends. that became one of the most popular protest songs in the Arab World and in Europe about the Libyan Civil War. The lyrics are written by an also Rami El-Kaleh who born 16 July 1983 in Waterford, Ireland, but who had returned to Libya young and was a computer engineer graduate and a guitar musician. He died before seeing the song being launched and the single serves as a memorial to him. He carried a dual Libyan-Irish nationality.The title and opening words of the song are a slogan taken from a speech by Omar Mukhtar, a famous Libyan resistance fighter who fought against the Italians in the 1930s. "We will not surrender / We win or we die / Our flag will not fall down / It will wave up high forever".The song is authored jointly by El-Kaleh and by Jasmine "Dadoo" Icanovic, a Bosnian Muslim who moved to Libya in 1992 with the break-up of Yugoslavia and was active musically in Libya. In 2000 he had met Rami El-Kaleh, then an 18-year-old guitarist. Icanovic and El-Kaleh wrote the song starting on 4 March 2011 and finished it by 8 March. Hussain Kablan (rhythm guitar and vocalist of guys underground) sang the vocals. Dadoo's young daughter joins in for the last few bars. The song was written as a collaboration by Rami Dadoo and "friends" being Motaz Elgaddary, Moftah Essallak and Mustafa "Boofa" Eddali... Boofa also joins in the singing in the last few bars. All three appear in clips of the music video.They had decided to record the song in English to let the world know what was happening. On 8 March 2011, Rami El-Kaleh was shot in a targeted killing by Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in Benghazi and died instantly from a bullet that pierced his heart. He had gone to pick up his brother from a friend's house in Benghazi and was to return to Dadoo's home, to re-record his guitar solo part. The song was released as a single credited to "Rami El-Kaleh and Friends" in his memory."@en }
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- We_Will_Not_Surrender_(We_Win_or_We_Die) abstract ""We Will Not Surrender (We Win or We Die)" is a song by Libyan-Irish musician Rami El Kalah with his friends. that became one of the most popular protest songs in the Arab World and in Europe about the Libyan Civil War. The lyrics are written by an also Rami El-Kaleh who born 16 July 1983 in Waterford, Ireland, but who had returned to Libya young and was a computer engineer graduate and a guitar musician. He died before seeing the song being launched and the single serves as a memorial to him. He carried a dual Libyan-Irish nationality.The title and opening words of the song are a slogan taken from a speech by Omar Mukhtar, a famous Libyan resistance fighter who fought against the Italians in the 1930s. "We will not surrender / We win or we die / Our flag will not fall down / It will wave up high forever".The song is authored jointly by El-Kaleh and by Jasmine "Dadoo" Icanovic, a Bosnian Muslim who moved to Libya in 1992 with the break-up of Yugoslavia and was active musically in Libya. In 2000 he had met Rami El-Kaleh, then an 18-year-old guitarist. Icanovic and El-Kaleh wrote the song starting on 4 March 2011 and finished it by 8 March. Hussain Kablan (rhythm guitar and vocalist of guys underground) sang the vocals. Dadoo's young daughter joins in for the last few bars. The song was written as a collaboration by Rami Dadoo and "friends" being Motaz Elgaddary, Moftah Essallak and Mustafa "Boofa" Eddali... Boofa also joins in the singing in the last few bars. All three appear in clips of the music video.They had decided to record the song in English to let the world know what was happening. On 8 March 2011, Rami El-Kaleh was shot in a targeted killing by Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in Benghazi and died instantly from a bullet that pierced his heart. He had gone to pick up his brother from a friend's house in Benghazi and was to return to Dadoo's home, to re-record his guitar solo part. The song was released as a single credited to "Rami El-Kaleh and Friends" in his memory.".