His coffin arrived from the Hotel Dieu Hospital at around 10 am at the Saint Nicolas Church in Beirut’s Ashrafieh, where a funeral mass was held around 1 pm.
It arrived in a black hearse with a large picture of the late singer on top, as loudspeakers played his songs.
The funeral convoy later on departed to the Mount Lebanon town of Kfarshima, the home town of Barakat, where he was buried.
Melhem Barakat, was born on August 15, 1945 in Kfarshima, Lebanon.
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