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Biography
BLP sources|date=February 2010Infobox musical artist| name = Warda Al-Jazairia lang|ar|???? ?????????| background = solo_singer| birth_date = birth year and age|1939|7| origin = Puteaux , France and Algeria | genre = Classical Arabic pop music | occupation = Singer | years_active = 1951–1962, 1972- Warda Al-Jazairia (lang-ar|script|Arab|???? ?????????|), commonly referred to as just Warda (lang-ar|script|Arab|????) (b. July 1940), is a France|French -born Algeria n singer . She is well known in the Arabic music community for her Music of Egypt|Egyptian songs and music.
Biography
Warda was born in Puteaux , France to a Lebanon|Lebanese Mother and Algerian father. She started singing at the age of eleven in 1951. She quickly became well known for her singing of patriotic Algerian songs. When she married in 1962, however, her husband forbade her to sing. In 1972, Algerian president Houari Boumédienne asked her to sing to commemorate Algeria's independence, and she performed with an Egyptian orchestra. As a result her marriage broke up, and she dedicated her life to music.
She then moved to Egypt , where she married the composer Baligh Hamdi . She performed many of his songs and those of other Arabic composers, quickly rising to fame and releasing several albums per year. Additionally, she has starred in a few films.
Warda is a female name of Arabic origin meaning Rose.
At the height of Panarabism , Gamal Abdel Nasser requested that Warda be given a part in a production by Mohammad Abdelwahhab entitled My Great Homeland (Watani Al-Akbar). The song was performed by the biggest stars at the time including Abdel Halim Hafez , Shadia , Sabah (singer) , Najat Al-Saghira and Faida Kamel. The song denounced Colonialism and urged for a united Arab People to defeat foreign occupation (see Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire ).
External links
http://www.wardaonline.com/ WardaOnline.com& mdash; fan site
http://www.maqam.com/warda.html Warda Discography and Music
http://www.3arabiaphoto.com/singers/warda.html Warda bio, pictures, and wallpapers
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