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Is internationally
recognized as one of the icons of Arabic Popular Songs.
Born on the 13th
of December 1956 at Kfarchima south of Beirut, she has two sisters and
one brother, her father is the most famous Lebanese Musician and Singer
Halim El Roumi (who presented to the world the best Lebanese Female Singer
Fairuz).
Because she
grow up in an artist house and the beautiful nature surrounding it the
sense of beauty and art started to grow inside of her since she was young.
Since she was
a child she started singing to her family and friends, her first appearance
as an amateur in 1974 in the Lebanese T.V. program "Studio El Fan"(The
Studio of Art), she sang songs to Aum Kalthoum, Asmahan and Layla Mourad.
And won the first prize with excellence.
In the year
1975 she presented her first song "Amm Bahlamak Ya Helm Ya Lebnan", in
1976 the famous Egyptian director Youssef shahin presented her in her
only film till now "Awdet El Ebn El Dal" She got " Egyptian Critics Award"
for her role in this film. Between
the year 1977 and the year 1980 with the broke out of the Lebanese civil
war she presented only one album (her first) in the year 1977 "Magida
El Roumi Vol.1 (Widaa)" (my favorite album), but in her personal life
she get married to a Lebanese business man named Antoine Dfouni in 1977,
she has two daughters from him now "Hala and Nour".
The year 1980
is another beginning, her first album re-released outside Lebanon, and
she appeared for the first time on stage in the International Kartaj Festival
in Tunis.
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