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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