| Majida 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 Um Kulthum, 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 Cartaj
Festival in Tunis
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