Majida El Roumi

Majida El Roumi ( Arabic ماجدة الرومي, DMG Māǧida ar-Rūmī ; * December 13, 1956 in Kfarchima ) is a Lebanese singer and actress .

Life

The daughter of the musician Halim El Roumi became known through the talent show Studio al-Phan , where she sang songs by Laila Murad and Asmahan . After her first album was released, she got a role in Yousef Chahine's film Awdat al-Ibn al-Dall (The Homecoming of the Prodigal Son). After the Lebanese civil war , she became famous as a political singer in the Arab world with the albums Kalimat (words), Ibat 'anni (look after me), Rasael (letters) and Uhibbuka Wa Ba'd (I love you and more). Its reputation was strengthened by the song Qana , named after a Lebanese village in which more than one hundred refugees were killed and around three hundred injured in an Israeli air strike at a UNFIL facility .

After an eight-year hiatus, El Roumi returned to the public in 2006 with the album I'tazalt al-Gharam (I stop loving). In the same year she appeared with José Carreras at the opening of the Asian Games in Doha.

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• Andrew Hammond: "Pop Culture in North Africa and the Middle East: Entertainment and Society around the World" , ABC-CLIO, 2017, ISBN 9781440833847 , p. 16
• Michael Aaron Frishkopf: "Music and Media in the Arab World" , American Univ in Cairo Press, 2010, ISBN 9789774162930 , p. 109
• Majida El Roumi on MusicBrainz (English)
• Majida El Roumi at Allmusic (English)
• ماجدة الرومي at Discogs (English)
• Majida El Roumi in the Internet Movie Database (English)