Gabriel Asaad (Syriac: ܓܒܪܐܝܠ ܐܣܥܕ) (March 18, 1907, Midyat – July 6, 1997 Stockholm) was an Assyrian composer and musician. Among the classical songs of Gabriel Asaad there are Ho Donho Shemsho (ܗܐ ܕܢܚܐ ܫܡܫܐ The sun is shining), Motho Rhimto (ܡܬܐ ܪܚܝܡܬܐ Beloved nation) and Moth Beth-Nahrin (ܡܬܝ ܒܝܬܢܗܪܝܢ Mesopotamia my nation). Gabriel Asaad was the pioneer of Assyrian music and composed the first Assyrian song in the Turoyo language in modern time, Othuroye Ho Mtoth Elfan l-Metba‘ (1926, ܐܬܘܪܝܶܐ ܗܐ ܡܛܬ ܐܠܦܢ ܠܡܛܒܥ Assyrians, Our ship is on the way to sink). See also List of Assyrian musicians References الموسيقار السرياني كبرئيل أسعد External links Gabriel Asaad, Qeenatha.com ، عبود زيتون الموسيقار الملفان كبرئيل أسعد , كريم إينا Turkish emigrants to Sweden Assyrian nationalists Assyrian musicians Assyrians from the Ottoman Empire 1997 deaths Syriac-language singers 1907 births Swedish people of Assyrian/Syriac descent 20th-century Syrian male singers 20th-century composers