Majida El Roumi, Lebanese singer, born 13 December 1956 in Kafr Shima, Lebanon.
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Name in English: Majida El Roumi
Name in Arabic: ماجدة الرومي
Full real name: Majida Halim El Roumi
Nickname: Angel of the Arabian Troupe, Singer of Intellectuals
Nationality: Lebanon
Language: Arabic, Lebanese dialect
Religion: Christianity (Catholic)
Residence: Lebanon
Date of birth: 13 December 1956
Place of birth: Kafr Shima, South Lebanon, Lebanon
Age: 65 years (in 2022)
Astrological Sign: Sagittarius
Profession: Singer
Genre: Arabic Music, Opera, Classical Music
Musical instruments: Violin
Years of activity: 1970 – present
Social status: Married
Sons: Hala Dvoni, Noor Dvoni
Father: Halim El Roumi (Lebanese musician)
Mother: Mary Lutfi (Egyptian)
Biography, Life story
Majida El Roumi was born on 13 December 1956 in Kafr Shima, southern Lebanon. She is from the Rumi family, which is rooted in the ElBaradei family from the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon. Born in an art house, her father is the Lebanese musician Halim Rumi who was behind the prominence of singer Feroz, and her mother is Egyptian Marie Lutfi. She received a baccalaureate degree in Arabic literature from the Lebanese University.
Her first lyric recording was a monologue kept by Roman Catholics. After her father’s approval, Majida El Roumi turned to the Lebanon Television (Art Studio) programme, with the help of her cousin in 1974, where she stunned the jury with her outstanding performance of the song by singer Leila Murad (I am my heart), giving her first place and all the more.
In 1975, the war erupted in Lebanon with the first massacre in Ayn al-Ramanah. Since Kafr Shima was located near Ayn al-Ramanah, her people fled from her. That year, Majda recorded her first song (uncle with your dream, dream, Lebanon).
Majida El Roumi is one of the most famous Arab artists and star in the world of Arab music and singing. She sang to many poets and composers, including her father, many kings and presidents, and most of the major festivals in the Arab world. She was named several titles, including “The Angel of the Arabian Troubles, The Singer of Intellectuals”, to demonstrate the distinction of her voice and the fluency of her art.
Majida El Roumi celebrated a ceremony at the Baabda Presidential Palace in Beirut held by the late Lebanese President Elias Hirawi in honour of former U.S. President George W. Bush during his visit to Beirut. Some criticized her, but stated that she sang because Bush was a guest of Lebanon. I am against it and I totally reject it. Lebanon has done a great deal of injustice to this policy, and my singing work has its specificity. “
Majda El Roumi married and answered two daughters, Hala, Noor Dafoni.
List of works – Discography
Albums
1. Cheat Me Sweetheart (1977), Featuring 8 Songs: Uncle Asking Me People, Cheat Me Sweetheart, Everything Uncle Concludes, Throw You in My Heart, Spring of Love, Mothers’ Paedophilia, Goodbye, Mothers’ Paedophilia (Music).
2 – From Zaman (1982), featuring 6 songs: Dream Jay, Perfume, From Zaman, Nostalgia, Your People Stand in the Wind, Safety Windows.
3. Bird (1983), featuring 8 songs: Aquarium, Sea, Game, Mother, Bird, Moon, Idi, I Have a Bissa.
4. Resident of My Thoughts (1986), featuring 9 songs: I am an uncle with a dream, with your hearing at night, no Mavi, don’t be angry, because you are me, still a Harami age, Min Elna other than you, Slona, my thoughts resident.
5. Zawi ya Qamar (1988), featuring 9 songs: repentance, Zawi ya Qamar, no Mavi, nights of age, because you are me, Lebanon my heart, Min Elna other than you, flap and happiness, Slona.
6. Lyrics (1991), featuring 6 songs: Beirut Six the World, Days, You and I, Hear My Heart, Lyrics, Every Singing on His Night.
7. Look for Me (1994), featuring 9 songs: Sing with Me, Look for Me, Be My Friend, I Won’t Come Back, With a Newspaper, I Went Through My Imagination, United People, The Mask Fell, Your Eyelash.
8. Letters (1996), featuring 11 songs: Your Eyes, Like You Say, Your Love, Color with Me Days, Marah Rid the Tale, Mimi, From What We Met, Qana, Brunette Nile, Shaw With Love of Esher, Peoples of Lovers.
9 – I love you and after (1998), I included 8 songs: Today my beloved, I am not a board, open heart, you are the past, I love you and…, Mr. President, the jasmine collar, says that I am a woman.
10. Heaven Harp (2003), featuring 7 songs: Peace be upon you Mary, peace be upon you Queen, peace be upon you Mary in Latin, Mary O Harp Heaven, our Father in Aramaic, God Good, Lady Victory.
11. Mercy, God (2004), comprising 13 songs: Mercy, God, Mercy, in French, Mary, I came to greet you, this evening, drinking, for the sake of your word, from the darkness of the days, as long as I live, accompanied, acquiesced, Lord, Bona, God’s grace, Halas, innocent Mary.
12. I Retired to Love (2006), featuring 11 songs: I Love You Very, My Love, I Retired to Love, Heart My Cell, How, Rich for Love, Love and Fulfillment, Wedding Anthem, At Your Surrey Night, My Tormentor My Heart, We Will Stay.
13. Yarn (2012), featuring 14 songs:
With the change of precision, I promised you, but I am your beloved, changed and bewildered, the world to us, Heck, the bird accepted me as a way to sing, Slona, not what to fry our sweetheart, on my King’s heart, not what to lit, if you know, my country, I pay tribute to the martyrs.
Miscellaneous (not included in any Album)
Adam and Hannan, after you are sweet, my heart, see the age of Lebanon, Eid soiree, good time, reach our love, uncle of your dream, Lebanon. (1975), Crea Leeson, passed us by Nahr, Peace Star, Maine, Love Anthem, Our Country, Pleasure Maqam (2004), killed you, Lebanon to our Lebanon, revolution, not to rise up and walk, Maghreb of glory, minarets of dawn, safety, my heart. (1972), Bahrain, Oman, I am your beloved me, Bakir Fleet, by any, mom, do you hear, beloved Carthage (1980), I imagine Jay from afar, Jay from Beirut, Kuwait Country of Salamla, not me who cried, put kafi on, crossroads (1976), inscriptions on the burden of Kuwait, your banner… Your fence, Amman, peace on you, a little girl, thank you, Yakwit, Yerno with a limb, Bright Way (2007).
Films
Return of the Prodigal Son (1976).
Awards and Honors
– National Rice Shield, rank of Persia, President of the Lebanese Republic, 1994.
– Shield from the French National Assembly in 1993.
– Order of Merit of the Egyptian Journalists’ Union in 2000.
– Honouring shield from Her Majesty Queen Noor Al-Hussein in 2002.
– Honour shield from the Syrian Ministry of Culture in 2004.
– Honorary member of the Student Scholarship Association at the American University of Beirut in 2005.