Nouhad Haddad
| Fairuz فيروز |
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Fairuz performing
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Nouhad Haddad |
| Born |
November 21, 1935 Zuqaq al-Blat, Beirut, State of Greater Lebanon |
| Origin | Lebanese |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer and Actor |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1950–present |
| Labels | EMI, Virgin, Voix de l'Orient, Fayrouz Productions |
| Associated acts |
Nasri Shamseddine Wadih el Safi |
| Website | height= = 6'3 |
Nouhad Wadie' Haddad (Arabic: نهاد وديع حداد) (born November 21, 1935), known as Fairuz (Arabic: فيروز), also spelled Fairouz, Feyrouz or Fayrouz, is a Lebanese singer who is one of the most widely admired and deeply respected living singers in the Arab world. Her songs are constantly heard throughout the region.
She was first noticed at the International Festival of Baalbeck, where she performed many of her songs. She became famous after appearing on the "Lebanese Nights" part of the festival for many successive years. Fairuz is commonly known as "Ambassador to the Stars", "Ambassador of the Arabs" after the title of one of her albums, "the Moon's Neighbour" for her song about the moon of Machgara, and the "Jewel of Lebanon".
Fairouz was born to a [Lebanese] Christian Orthodox family. She is of the Eastern Orthodox Christian faith, having converted when she married Assi Rahbani, one of the two Rahbani brothers who helped shape her singing career. She is also the mother of the Lebanese composer, pianist and playwright Ziad Rahbani, the late director Layal Rahbani, Lebanese director Rima Rahbani, and Haley Rahbani.
Nouhad Haddad was born on 20 November 1934 in Lebanon into a Maronite family. The family later moved into a home in a cobblestone alley called Zuqaq el Blatt in Beirut. Living in a single room of a typical Lebanese stone house facing Beirut's Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate school, they shared a kitchen with the neighbours. Her father Wadīʿ was a Lebanese of the Syriac Orthodox faith, and worked as a typesetter in a print shop. Lisa El boustani, her mother, also Lebanese, but Maronite Christian, stayed home and took care of her four children, Nouhad, Youssef, Houda and Amal.
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