Latifa Arfaoui

Latifa Bint Alayah Al Arfaoui began her career at a very young as a prodigy at the age of six.
In 1983, shortly after her father died, Latifa and her family took a trip to Egypt to rest and mourn. During that time, she met composer Baleegh Hamdi, who advised her that she ought to move to Egypt for the sake of her career. However Latifa wanted to concentrate on her education. She returned to Tunisia to finish her high school final exams. Due to financial issues, she couldn't go back to Egypt, so she attended college in Tunisia, studying Dutch literature for a year and a half. Her family decided to help her make her dream come true by sending her to Egypt, so she quit college in Tunisia and joined the Arab Academy of Music in Egypt, from which she earned her bachelor degree. She is preparing for her master's degree.
Composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab happened to hear her on the radio. Two days later he went to the Academy to find out more about her, leaving Latifa speechless as she discovered he wanted to speak with her. At the time Latifa primarily performed long Tarab songs, but she was interested in doing something new. She began to work with composer Ammar Al Sherai'ei and poet Abdulwahab Muhammed, whom she met during her first visit to the capital, Egypt.
Many of Latifa's early albums (1984s) have Arab style. The album Mesa Al Jamal ("Evening Of Beauty") made Latifa Bint Alayah Al Arfaoui famous in Egypt.
"Akthar Min Roohi" ("More than My Soul"), was released in 1986. She began singing Arab pop songs with music by Ammar Al Sherai'ei and lyrics by Abdulwahab Muhammed. The album was hugely successful all over the Arab world. The songs had very original ideas and distinctive styles, and Latifa began making her songs shorter and adding different influences such as tango music. She also shot a music video for the single "Ew'ah Tegheer" ("Don't Be Jealous") which was extremely popular. The huge success of this album allowed Latifa Bint Alayah Al Arfaoui to buy half the shares of her producer's company and studio, La Reine. Since then, she has co-produced all her own albums and music videos.
Hobbak Hadi ("Frigid Love") was released in 1993. In the title song, Latifa asks directly for more love because she is bored of her lover's "frigid" love; she needs love that moves her.
In 1997, Latifa released the album Al Ghinwa ("The Song") considered follow up to "Akthar Min Roohi" from a previous album.
Latifa then decided to perform a new style of songs called Qasa'ed Fos'ha. Her next album, 1998's Taloomoni Al Donya ("The World Blames Me"), featured Latifa singing lyrics written by the poet Nizar Qabbani.
Latifa came back with a hit album, known in the Arab world with the title Wadeh ("Clear") and internationally known with the title Inchallah ("God willing") in 1999. The album was distributed by Universal Music France, and it was the first album in which Latifa performed in another language. The Franco-Arab song "Inchallah" made the Elle Magazine top 5. In the Arab World, "Inchallah" ("God willing"), Kerehtak ("I Hated You") and Wadeh ("Clear") were popular singles.
The 2002 variety album Desert Roses and Arabian Rhythms II featured Latifa performing an Arab Mawwal in the song "Take Me I'm Yours," and singing a small part in both Arabic and English with Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook of the band Squeeze.
Because of the album Ma Etrohsh Ba'ed ("Don't go away") - produced in the year 2003 by Alam El Phan(Mazzica tv)- Latifa won the World Music Award 2004 for best selling artist in the Middle East and North Africa. Her speech was censored on ABC when she said, "My happiness remains incomplete until Palestine & Iraq are freed".
In 2004, Latifa produced an album distributed by Warner Brothers France, titled Les Plus Belles Chansons De Latifa ("Latifa's Best Songs"). Although the album was mostly a collection of greatest hits, it also featured a brand-new Raï song called "Khalleoni" ("Let Me") that was Latifa's first attempt at Raï.
In November, 2006 Latifa re-signed a contract with Rotana to distribute her records all over the Arab World.

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Mai Hariri

May Hariri was described as the most beautiful woman in Lebanon; known for her jovial and witty spirit, she radiates a constant positive energy with her cheerful personality. Equipped with a unique vocal ability, a team of professionals, lots of support from many in the music industry and her natural charm, May has finally launched her career as a Lebanese Pop Artist.May has been an achiever all her life and always attained what she sought for. Like most teenagers, May at a young age was attracted to the arts, and especially to becoming a pop star. While life had a different road set for her, May kept her dream in mind and at the right time, she ventured with all her strength to achieve her lifetime goal.With the release of May Hariri’s first Music Video, she unleashed to the Arab world a combination of wild, sensual and enchanting concepts with the clip of her debut single “Ha Sahhar Ouyounou”. The Music Video was filmed at the Grand Hills Village and was filled with surprising and courageous ideas that flabbergasted the fans and media alike. Many of Lebanon’s leading opinions in the music industry like the esteemed Melhem Barakat and Simon Asmar expressed their support and trust in May‘s work. Melhem Barakat even added his own vocal effects to one of the tracks on her album entitled “Amma Alek Kalam”. May’s Album slated for Release in May 2004, also entitled “Hasahhar Ouyounou” contains a variety of tracks with different moods, and all filled with strong beats pumping over Arabic and Oriental melodies which vary from the soft to the dance. Walking the brick road of fame, and already capturing the audience with her beauty, sensuality and wildness, May Hariri will give her fans a sweet voice and super performance.At the moment and a year after launching her first album, May has made 8 music videos and 3 singles: “Habibi Enta”, “Ya Btaa’ Elgaram” and "Habibi, Ta’ala". To honor the memory of the martyr president Rafique Hariri, May, crowned the end of her first year as a singer, with an emotional and heart breaking performance, for the national song and video clip “La Ma Koulset Lehkayeh”. In 2007 May Hariri started her first line of jewelry in Kuwait. With the much awaited line being held off until January of 2008 the new addition to her career was well received.The stardom, which May achieved in an unprecedented short period of time, was reflected through the vast number of all the successful festivals and tours she performed in her first year.WIKIPEDIA

Assi El Hillani

Mohammed Al Hellany better known as Assi Al Hellany, was born on the 28th of November in Baalbeck, Lebanon in 1970. Assi grew up in a large family with 13 brothers and sisters, of whom he was the third youngest.Assi El Halani started his music career by singing Lebanese songs at an early age among his family and friends. Assi had a big interest in singing which soon grew stronger. At the age of 17, that is around 1987 he started his life as a singer officially when he participated in the “Art Studio” TV program for young artists, and was the winner in the popular Lebanese song category.Assi studied music for almost five years at the Higher Institute of Music in Lebanon from 1985 until 1990. El Halani specialized in playing the Ood (oriental guitar) and in arab singing techniques.Assi Al Halani had performances in many concerts and festivals including the Jarash festival, the Carthage festival, and in a number of concerts around the Arab world, Europe and America.Assi has released over a dozen albums and is firmly established as a major star in the Region. His most popular songs include “Wani Mareq Mareet”, “Ahebbak Gedan”, “Amshi Lihali”, “Mali Saber”, “Ahla Al Oyounv”, “Shoag El Sahara” and “Kayed Ozzalak”, all of which are included on his new ‘Best of’ compilation which spans his entire career to date.Source - Facebook.com

Julia Boutros

When she began her singing career at the age of 12, Julia could already sense the need to use her talent on behalf of others. Her first song, a French tune titled 'A Maman", was dedicated to all mothers on mother's day. It proved to be the first step in a lifelong journey of dedication: her gift to others.

By the age of 14, she had released her first album, titled ‘C’est La Vie’ (This is Life), written and composed by Elias Rahbani.
It was also around this time that the civil war in Lebanon broke out, playing a central role in Julia's life and bringing into sharp focus her desire to commit herself and her singing to humanity and civilization in the Lebanese community in particular and the world in general.

Early on, unlike other artists her age, Julia dedicated her career to a cause. This burning desire to be a voice for others led directly in 1985 to her recording “Ghabet Shams Al Haq”. Composed by Julia’s brother Ziad Boutros, who composes most of her work today, the song expresses their anger at the continued killing of the innocents: children, women, men and the elderly civilians.
"The only thing we were able to do at the time was to raise our voices and send a message to the world, and that was achieved by my first song" says Julia.

She wanted to send a message and she did so, forcefully. One week after this song was released; Julia's voice entered every house in the Arab world. Her voice had become their voice, with millions of people singing her songs. Even schools began teaching the children the real meanings of Julia's words.
After “Ghabet Shams Al Haq”, Julia would say, "I felt that I had a responsibility and that it is to speak on behalf of my people whose voice goes unheard".
Today, Julia’s fans range from children to elderly, as she became a national symbol for Nationalism, Patriotism, Resistance and even Romance.Julia received several national and international awards, including The Lebanese President's Award which was presented to Julia for her contribution, through her voice, to the Lebanese Resistance against the Israeli occupation of Lebanon, shortly after the liberation of the South in May 2000.Recently, and during the latest Lebanese - Israeli conflict, Julia Boutros was featured on Al Jazeera TV Station in a special program; she talked about the Politics in the Arab world, daring to say the least. She has today developed a fundraising project for the families of all Lebanese Martyrs who perished during the 33 day war. http://juliaboutros.net

Diana Haddad

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Lebanese Artist Diana Joseph Fouad Haddad (born 1 October 1976) is a Lebanese Arab pop folk singer and model with Emirati citizenship. Mainly known as Diana Haddad, she is one of the most popular and successful singers in the Arab World and has been so since the start. Lebanese Singer Diana Haddad was a record-breaker since her first song Saken in 1996, and she is still considered one of the most successful Arab female singers and one of the best selling singers in the Arab World. Lebanese Singer Diana Haddad does not limit herself to one music style, she knows how to present a very wide range, moving from the most rhythmic songs to the slow romantic ones. Lebanese Singer Diana Haddad first came to fame in 1993 when she just 16. While she was recording her first album she appeared on the Arabic talent show Studio El Fan in Beirut performing the traditional Lebanese folk song written by Elias Abou Azala Tayr El Yammameh which would be included on her first album Saken.

Three years later, the release of her debut album Saken, which featured her single Saken, Lagaitek, a cover of Issam Rajje's old hit, and Al-Sahra. Soon, after Lebanese Artist Diana Haddad became a mother to her first child, a daughter Sofi. In 1997 Lebanese Artist Diana Haddad released one of the most successful albums in her discography, Ahl Al Esheg, which included the hit single Ahl Al Esheg. Diana Haddad released the most popular pop album of the 1990s Ammanih. In 2000s Diana Haddad released the more critically acclaimed and successful albums Awel Marrah and Diana 2006. In 2007 Diana Haddad gave birth to her second daughter Mira in Dubai. On 30 October 2008, Diana Haddad released her second long waited Khaliji (Gulf Arabic) album Men Diana Illa. Rest on http://www.lebanonatlas.com/content/magazine/DianaHaddad.asp

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Koor195

Koor is one of the pioneer singers who made oriental rock music a commercial music in Arab world that is why his fans called him (King Of Oriental Rock), actually he is composing and writing most of his songs trying to make a new image for the oriental music to reach the global music classifications.
Koor had a bachelor degree in interior designing engineering and started music Professionalism year 1997 after he returned from U.S.A with a lots of English rock concerts in Egypt after that he launched his first Arabic rock album (Ayesh Amir) year 2001 and recently he released his second Oriental Rock album (DownTown - Wust El balaad) Aug 2007 and more than 7 unique music videos since 2002.sourse web KOR195

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Aline Khalaf

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Aline Khalaf first rose to fame when she took part in the program for amateur singers, "Layali Lebnan", and won the Global Medal. This prize gave her a steady push into the world of show business. She began to perform in large restaurants with other stars. She then signed with production company Relax-in-Company and produced her first album, Khayfa Menak. Khalaf then released a second album, Bousat Al-Rih. When Ya Zein was released, Khalaf was quite famous already and had become known in the Arab world. Wayed Wayed followed soon after and was a commercial success like her previous albums. However, it was her hit album La Ley Lah that made the strongest impact at the time. The main song was so popular that Khalaf decided to shoot a popular music video.Her next album Azz Alaya was released later and followed by Law Andak Kalam. Khalaf's most recent album, Sodfa, was released on the summer of 2005. Two songs from the album, "Sodfa" and "Meni leek" were made into music videos. Throughout her career, Khalaf has shot a number of her songs as music videos. Among these are "Wayed Wayed", "La Ley Lah", "Dala'a El-Habayeb", "Azz Alaya", "Law Andak Kalam", "Aloulak Eh" and "Ba3dak 3al Bal".
After the 2006 July War, Khalaf performed the song "Al Watan" ("The Homeland") in support of Lebanon.Wikipedia

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Joanna Mallah

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Choosing a road with an unpredictable end, Joana was motivated by her unique talent, her love for music & most important her family support.
It all started in 1993 when she participated in (Studio el fan) in folk music category competition where she sang for the famous Shadia & earned her first gold medal thanks to her beautiful voice & enchanting presence.In 1994, Joana started her successful career & soon became one of the best known artists in the gulf area.
She was named (The beloved singer) by Mr. Georges Ibrahim El Khoury, who is one of the most prominent figures in the Arab world.Joana Mallah released 6 albums so far, all with great success & she worked with major composers, poetsď?˝ for ex, Mr. Mohamed Diaaď?˝Dine, Salah Sharnouby, and Riad El Hamcharyď?˝Joana shot many beautiful clips; her last clip (Hatefdal Fi Alby) directed by Jad Choueiri was a great success for both artists especially for Jad who said that the clip was his biggest challenge till now.The young Joana participated in numerous international festivals like Carthage festival, the Arabic Song festivals of Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.She also participated in other events that took place in England, Germany & France.Joana Mallah is simply a unique artist with a beautiful voice.

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Zeezee Adel

Zeezee Adel is an Egyptian singer that rose to fame when she entered the famous Middle Eastern competition Star Academy during its second season. Soon after her elimination she sign a contract with Rotana, the biggest music production company in the Arab World, that included three albums and each having at least three music videos shot and the ability to release singles anytime she would like, as Zeezee being the only Star Academy graduate to receive that contract, leading to her success all over the arab world with her debut album, Wahda Tayiba which reached the number 1 spot on the Rotana top five albums, along with hits such as Hob Mosh Mahsoub Alayah (Unaccounted Love) which stayed on both Rotana and Virgin Megastore charts for as long as five months or so, Her second Single, Wahda Tanya (Another Chick), which also received great success all over the Arab World.Along with her success Zeezee won numerous awards including ART's Best New Artist and Zahrat Al Kaleej' Best Album of 2007. Zeezee is considered the most successful student to ever graduate from Star Academy.Zeezee have finished working on her 2nd studio abum Waed alia, produced by Rotana,released now. Meanwhile Zeezee released an up-beat single, Eta'awedt Alaik, I've already gotten used to you, which she is currently shooting as a music video, not to mention that the single is written and composed by herself.WIKIPEDIA

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Cyrine Abdelnour

Cyrine Abdelnour (born on February 21, 1977) (also known as Cyreen Abdul Noor) is a popular Lebanese singer, actress, top model of the world 2003 and a leading female celebrity in the Middle East. Her Father is Lebanese and Syrian mother. She burst into the music scene by her album, Leila Min El Layli which was released in about 2004. The album was considered a hit in the Middle East and shot Cyrine to fame.Cyrine's second album, Aalik Ayouni, became a blockbuster hit. The single, Lou Bass Fi Ayni became one of the most popular and widely listened songs of 2006, followed by a second single, Aalik Ayouni.Cyrine is known for her wonderful vocal talents and she has amazed the Arab World with her many hit songs. She is also an active singer and has gone on a number of tours around the world.Cyrine also went to star in Arabic Movies that will be released in cinema's later this year.Wikipedia

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May Hariri

May Hariri was described as the most beautiful woman in Lebanon; known for her jovial and witty spirit, she radiates a constant positive energy with her cheerful personality. Equipped with a unique vocal ability, a team of professionals, lots of support from many in the music industry and her natural charm, May has finally launched her career as a Lebanese Pop Artist.May has been an achiever all her life and always attained what she sought for. Like most teenagers, May at a young age was attracted to the arts, and especially to becoming a pop star. While life had a different road set for her, May kept her dream in mind and at the right time, she ventured with all her strength to achieve her lifetime goal.With the release of May Hariri’s first Music Video, she unleashed to the Arab world a combination of wild, sensual and enchanting concepts with the clip of her debut single “Ha Sahhar Ouyounou”. The Music Video was filmed at the Grand Hills Village and was filled with surprising and courageous ideas that flabbergasted the fans and media alike. Many of Lebanon’s leading opinions in the music industry like the esteemed Melhem Barakat and Simon Asmar expressed their support and trust in May‘s work. Melhem Barakat even added his own vocal effects to one of the tracks on her album entitled “Amma Alek Kalam”. May’s Album slated for Release in May 2004, also entitled “Hasahhar Ouyounou” contains a variety of tracks with different moods, and all filled with strong beats pumping over Arabic and Oriental melodies which vary from the soft to the dance. Walking the brick road of fame, and already capturing the audience with her beauty, sensuality and wildness, May Hariri will give her fans a sweet voice and super performance.At the moment and a year after launching her first album, May has made 8 music videos and 3 singles: “Habibi Enta”, “Ya Btaa’ Elgaram” and "Habibi, Ta’ala". To honor the memory of the martyr president Rafique Hariri, May, crowned the end of her first year as a singer, with an emotional and heart breaking performance, for the national song and video clip “La Ma Koulset Lehkayeh”. In 2007 May Hariri started her first line of jewelry in Kuwait. With the much awaited line being held off until January of 2008 the new addition to her career was well received.The stardom, which May achieved in an unprecedented short period of time, was reflected through the vast number of all the successful festivals and tours she performed in her first year.Wikipedia

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Fares Karam

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Faris Karam is a famous Lebanese singer who has produced many big hit singles in Lebanon and around the world such as "El-Tanoura" (English: The Skirt). Throughout his career, he has participated in a large number of concerts, public celebrations and festivals. Born in Jezzine, in the south of Lebanon. He has a little girl. His musical style in recent times is linked more closely to dabke and his live band play many of his songs with a large tabal drum using a Narwari rhythm. This has helped make his music very popular in Lebanese nightclubs where patrons like to dance the dabke.Wikipedia

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Janine D

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Born in Beirut, the future "Janine D" grew up in the world of Art-Movie and Arabic Music. She was only six years old when her two parents Mounir (Egyptian) and Gladys (Lebanese) used to manage and own in Cairo. The hotel who became with time the most famous “Point de Rendez-Vous” for all singers and actors from the Arab world but also from Europe and even America. In the family’s Hotel, the future star yet still a young girl met and sang with many music stars or movie makers like Julio Eglesias, Dalida, Omar Sharif, Walid Toufic, Ragheb Alemeh, Hussein and Moudy El Imam, Adel Imam, and many, many more... This was also the place where many young Arabic artists, producers, yet unknown from the public, made their first steps and started their career.
From Cairo, the whole family moved to New-York, the most fascinating cosmopolitan city in the world, Mecca of music, art and fashion, a city bubbling with life and ideas. Moreover, New-York is the city of the largest musical diversity where music of all kinds converges, where artists coming from all over the world rush to accomplish their secret dream and to one day become a star.She was gifted by nature with a voice-of-a-kind, one extremely warm and full of Mediterranean character, obviously enough powerful to one day integrate and mix in total harmony different sounds, different musical languages. To gain such feature, the future artist has worked hard perfecting her singing technique in the prestigious Herbert Berghof Conservatory where she studied art & musical theater and from which she finally graduated. Yet, our future star remained authentically oriental and though couldn’t limit herself just to her exceptional voice and singing technique so she worked even harder on dancing and acting enabling her body to absorb all types of rhythms and to exhale strength and sensuality.Living in city like New York, the future star evolved and has progressively absorbed many types of music. She became familiar with styles of dozens of most talented musicians and art professors who cultured her to blend her signature sound by composing her own music and her own lyrics and also to confront crowds during number of live-concerts she performed in New-York and in many other US or western-European cities, revealing an incredible power and talent to communicate with crowds or audiences. Last but not least, our future star understood better all the different aspects of the music industry of both art-creation and production: lyrics, music, mix, arrangement, mastering, photos, clips, marketing and brand-recognition, live-concert features, choreography….In total, the future star has spent 12 years of her life in New-York and this is where she became "Janine D".
In 2003, "Janine D" decided that time has came for her to “move back to the East” and to present herself to the Arabic public as an authentic Egyptian-Lebanese artist.
“When focusing on the craft of performing and songwriting, I always wanted my voice to shine through…But to me, relevance means above all staying honest about what you are…The most important thing for me as an Artist is maintaining my authenticity”.(Janine D).With that thoughts in her mind, "Janine D" decided to carry a genuine but challenging approach for presenting her oriental music, where sensuality goes with self-confidence and professionalism and where female artists would not be anymore presented to the public through bunch of “clichés” but where they would be giving a new image, as an acceptable synthesis between the necessary requirement of a modern life and their old traditional yet authentic values.http://fi-fi.facebook.com/pages/Janine-D/52203124848

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Mayssam Nahas

Mayssam Nahas is also known as Maysam Nahhas or Maysam Nahas is afamous Lebanese singer who was born in Lebanon.She became a celebrity in the early 2000 when her hit song Nar Nar was a hit in the arab world.

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Ayman Kafrouny-HIGHT QUALITY VIDEO

Ayman was born in Tripoli – Lebanon in 1969. He studied nursing and joined the army then served in “Beit - Chabab Institute For Handicaps” for 3 years, taking care of people injured in the war.In 1992, Ayman participated in a television program for amateurs on a popular TV station in Lebanon and became a finalist. Later, Ayman became well known and famous not only in Lebanon but in the Arab world as well during his 8 years of singing and playing the “OUD”.Fame drew Ayman to become more self-focused and deeply involved with drugs. He made up his mind that God does not exist so that he could live as he pleased. However, Ayman wasn’t satisfied with this way of living.One day he challenged God, “I will read the Bible five times. In return I expect you to make my next overseas concert successful.”God was more faithful than Ayman.As Ayman read the Bible, he discovered that he could not please God by doing good deeds. ”I was amazed to learn that God loves me the way I am, even though I am a sinner. That is why He sent Jesus to die and pay the penalty for my sin, for it is written ‘the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord’. The Bible also showed me that God also wanted to renew my life and give me a heart of obedience and love.""One evening in the beginning of 1999 I was home by myself. I went on my knees and prayed "O God forgive me. I am a sinner. I do not deserve your love nor your being close to me. But I know you still love me. I ask you to help me. Free me and deliver me from what I am involved in. Change my life because I am not satisfied anymore in what I am doing and in a life of fame. Nothing is making me happy and I am not able to change my lifestyle."
"On that night Jesus entered my heart and there was a real change in my life. Within a week I left drugs, alcohol and smoking.""I tell you that in 1999 Ayman Kafrouny died and a new Ayman was born. A new Ayman who says ‘I am delighted to do your will O God and your law lives in me.’""If I was asked in the past what does music mean to you? I would have said to you, 'music is everything in my life'. But today, Jesus Christ is my life. Music is God's gift to me. He honoured me with it to be able to express my feelings. Today I use the gift of music to reflect the miracle of how God transformed my life and how He can transform yours."http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=17989574036&id=19146060660&index=0

Rabih El Khawly

Rabih El Khawly started his singing career from a Lebanese show called Studio Elfan in 1980. Ever since then his popularity has gone from Lebanon to most of the Arab countries including, Syria, Jordon, Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the entire Gulf region. Rabih is loved in countries like Algeria, Tunisia, Morroco, Libya, Egypt and Moritania.
Rabih El Khawly was extremely known by most of the Arabic speaking people around the world due to his world famous concerts in places like Paris, London, Australia, Sweden, Africa, and the entire South and North American regions.
Singer Rabih El Khawly stopped work for sometime then resumed his work after the death of his brother, Salim El Khawly in a motorcycle accident. His first appearance was on New Year's Eve and Fitr feast at Blue Velvet Nightclub. Rabih received the year 2000 with a number of new songs by the best composers and lyricists.
Around the early 2000 Rabih decided to stop his music career and he joined Priesthood. He can still be seen on television from time to time singing at Lebanese churches during some religious events.