Nouhad Wadi Haddad (Arabic: نهاد حداد‎) (born November 21, 1935), famously known as Firooz (Arabic: فيروز‎, also spelled Fairuz, Fairouz or Fayrouz) is a Lebanese diva, that is widely considered to be the most famous living singer in the Arabic-speaking world and one of the best known of all times. Her songs are constantly heard throughout the region, and still spark Lebanese national pride. She was born in Jabal al Arz (Cedar Mountain),Lebanon to a Syriac Catholic Assyrian father from Mardin,(which was a Syrian city at the time but now in Turkey)and a Lebanese Maronite mother...

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