Majida El Roumi Baradhy (Arabic: ماجدة الرومي
برادعي‎; born 13 December 1956) is a Lebanese soprano singer.
She is also a UN Goodwill Ambassador. In 1974, she participated in the
talent show "Studio El Fan" on Télé Liban and performed songs for
Layla Murad at the age of 16.Majida El Roumi Al Baradhy was born on 14
December 1956 and descends from the Christian “Al Baradhy†family
from Tyre, South Lebanon. She is the daughter of the Lebanese musician
Halim El Roumi who was born in Tyre in 1919 and moved to Haifa,
Palestine at the age of 2 with his whole family due to the crisis of
World War I. When Halim moved to Egypt to follow his musical career,
he met Marie Loutfy, a Melkite Greek Catholic woman. They got married
in Port Said and had three girls Maha, Mona, Majida and a boy Awad.
The whole family moved from Egypt to Lebanon and settled in Kfarshima,
which is part of Greater Beirut when Majida was at the age of 6 as she
grew up in an artistic environment and family of artists. Kfarshima is
also home to many Lebanese singers, musicians and poets like Philimon
Wehbe, Melhem Barakat and Issam Rajji. The residence of Halim El Roumi
was a meeting place for many cultural figures as he worked with many
singers with mentioning his discovery to many well-known artists,
mainly the Lebanese star Fairuz.As a child, Majida used to listen to
the works of Fairuz, Umm Kulthum, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Wadih El Safi
and Asmahan and at the age of 5 when she sang her first song
“Miladak†(Your Birth) in reference to the birth of Jesus Christ
and dedicated to her brother on his birthday.
برادعي‎; born 13 December 1956) is a Lebanese soprano singer.
She is also a UN Goodwill Ambassador. In 1974, she participated in the
talent show "Studio El Fan" on Télé Liban and performed songs for
Layla Murad at the age of 16.Majida El Roumi Al Baradhy was born on 14
December 1956 and descends from the Christian “Al Baradhy†family
from Tyre, South Lebanon. She is the daughter of the Lebanese musician
Halim El Roumi who was born in Tyre in 1919 and moved to Haifa,
Palestine at the age of 2 with his whole family due to the crisis of
World War I. When Halim moved to Egypt to follow his musical career,
he met Marie Loutfy, a Melkite Greek Catholic woman. They got married
in Port Said and had three girls Maha, Mona, Majida and a boy Awad.
The whole family moved from Egypt to Lebanon and settled in Kfarshima,
which is part of Greater Beirut when Majida was at the age of 6 as she
grew up in an artistic environment and family of artists. Kfarshima is
also home to many Lebanese singers, musicians and poets like Philimon
Wehbe, Melhem Barakat and Issam Rajji. The residence of Halim El Roumi
was a meeting place for many cultural figures as he worked with many
singers with mentioning his discovery to many well-known artists,
mainly the Lebanese star Fairuz.As a child, Majida used to listen to
the works of Fairuz, Umm Kulthum, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Wadih El Safi
and Asmahan and at the age of 5 when she sang her first song
“Miladak†(Your Birth) in reference to the birth of Jesus Christ
and dedicated to her brother on his birthday.
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