Ziad Rahbani is the child of the legendary Fairouz (Nouhad Haddad) and the genius Assi Rahbani who marked twentieth century Lebanese music with his signature.

Ziad was born in January First 1956 in Antelias north of Beirut. That was the first year for the Baalbak Festivals, where Fairouz had performed "The days of the Harvest" operate, When Ziad was just 7 months old. He studied at Joumhour (in the mountain south-east of Beirut). He learnt music at a young age and was proficient in the European classical music played on the piano.
His first attempt at show business was in 1973 when, along with a group of friends, he composed, directed, and wrote the scenario for a musical along the Rahbani genre, called "Sahriyé" (Soirée). He played it in the theater of Bkannaya/Jal al Dib to a receiving audience. He took a minor part in this musical. Thereafter he dropped any future plans for the musical genre and moved directly to political satire in a series of 6 plays where he embedded his ideas of refusal and revolution: Nazl As-Sourour (1974), Bel Nisbi la Boukra Shou (1978), Film Americi Tawil (1980-1), Shi Fashel (1983), Bekhsous El Karameh Wel Sha'eb El Anid (1993) and Lawla Foushatil 'Amali (1994). However, he had a cameo appearance in "Maysi al Riem", one of the most successful Rahbani and Fairuz collaborations.
Ziad's first real appearance was in his "Nazl As-Sourour" (Auberge du bonheur), which was performed in Cinema Oerly theater. In this play he introduced many songs and musical pieces that are considered a treasure for the Lebanese and Arabic musical library. Songs like "Nazl As-Sourour ya Fondou' El Mazloum", "Ba'atelak ya Habib El Rouh, Ba'atilak Rouhi" and "Ana illi 'aleiki moushta' moush ghayri moushta' leiki" and more which was sang and performed by Joeph Sakr. Fairouz was impressed by the song "Ba'atelak" (which reminds us of the period of the late Egyptian singer Mounira Al-Mahdiyya), to the extent that she retaped that song with her voice after it was sang by another singer in the beginning of the seventies.
Between 1982 and 1990, following irreconcilable differences between his parents, he replaced his father as the composer for Fairouz. Over the next 10 years he wrote four albums for Fairouz ("Maarifti Fik", "Wahdon", "Fairuz at the Albert Hall", and "Kifak Inta").
In the eighties also, Ziad chose to sing his own songs and has produced the very successful album "Ana Mosh Kafer" on which he shows his brilliant Sharki music edge (à la Sayid Darwich). Watch for "Shou hal eyam ".