She is a Lebanese singer and artist, her real name is “Magda Halim El-Roumi”, better known by the name “Magda El-Roumi”. She was born in 1956, in Lebanon. She holds a BA in Arabic literature from the Lebanese University. Her father is the famous Lebanese musician Halim El-Roumi, and her mother is Mary Lotfi, the Egyptian. .
Magda El Roumi was influenced by music and singing since she was young because of her artistic upbringing. Despite that, her father opposed her entry into the field, but following his approval, she participated in the “Studio Art” program and won excellence following she impressed everyone with her voice.
She was distinguished by her sweet voice and attractive facial features. She grew up in an artistic family, as her father is a musician, which made her influenced since childhood by great musicians such as Nightingale, Umm Kulthum and Muhammad Abdel Wahab. She has many distinctive songs. She participated in one cinematic work, and she went through a painful marriage experience.
The singer Magda drew the attention of the famous Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, who chose her to participate in the movie “The Return of the Prodigal Son” despite her young age at the time, and a group of stars participated with her in the tournament, they are Shukri Sarhan, Hisham Selim and Sir Al-Murshidi, and the film achieved great success.
She was insulted by her husband following she confronted him with his betrayal of her, as he beat her and expelled her in sleeping clothes from the house in the middle of the night. Marriage, announcing her retirement from love as she sang later.
