Zubir Said
Zubir Said was born in Bukittinggi, Sumatra, Indonesia on July 22nd, 1907 and is the Composer. At the age of 80, Zubir Said biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Zubir Said (22 July 1907 – 16 November 1987) was a Singaporean composer born in the Minangkabau highlands of Indonesia who composed the national anthem of Singapore, "Majulah Singapura" ("Onward Singapore").
Zubir, a self-taught musician, also worked as a score arranger and songwriter for Cathay-Keris Film Productions for 12 years, writing numerous songs for the company's Malay films.
Zubir is said to have written about 1,500 songs with less than 10% of them ever recorded, and that he and his Minangkabau contemporaries triggered a wave of national consciousness in the 1950s.
Early years
Zubir, the eldest child in a family of three boys and five girls, was born in Bukittinggi (formerly known as Fort de Kock) in the Minangkabau highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia. When he was seven years old, his mother died. He attended a Dutch school but had no interest in academic studies. He got into music when a tutor introduced Solfa's Solfa music system. A primary-school classmate taught him how to make and play a flute, and in middle school, he learned how to play the guitar and drums from peers and the keroncong group in which he was active.