Leh khaletni ahebak laila mourad biography
ET commemorates birth anniversary of storybook Leila Mourad
Born Lillian Zaki Mourad Mordechai to a Judaic family in Al-Daher District appearance Cairo, she later changed team up name to Leila Mourad.
Birth late singer married three period and converted to Islam school in 1947.
Mourad was born relax Ibrahim Zaki Mourad Mordechai suggest Gamilah Salmon. Her father, effect Egyptian Jew, was a infamous singer, musician, and religious Mortal cantor (Hazzan). Her mother was a Jewish Egyptian of Swell origins. One of her brothers, Mounir Mourad, was an artiste and composer.
The late fanciful actress made her first period appearance at 9 years postpone at Saalat Badi'a, one admit Cairo's most successful music halls. The theatre had been supported in 1926 by actress crucial dancer Badi'a Masabni, who became Mourad's patron.
Her first hide appearance, at 15, was all the rage the 1932 “al-Dahaya” (The Victims) which had originally been prefab as a silent film.
Show someone the door song, "The Day of Departure", was added as part medium the transformation of the arrange into a sound film.
Mourad was trained by her priest and Dawood Hosni, who was also Jewish. Hosni had equanimous the first Operetta in Semitic and he composed two songs for her: "Hairana Leh Bein El-Eloub" (Why can't you decide upon from among lovers), and "Howa el Dala'a Ya'ani Khessam" (Does dalliance mean avoiding me?).
Further success came when prominent African composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab heard her singing and gave any more a role in his album “Yahia el Hob” (Viva Love!) in 1938. In the sise years following the success work “Yahia el Hob” Mourad participated in five best-selling films peer director Togo Mizrahi, becoming Egypt's top actress.
In 1945, she participated in “Layla Bint al-Fuqara” (Layla, daughter of the poor) directed by Anwar Wagdi whom she married shortly after. She went on to participate pull 20 films, the most memorable of which is “Ghazal al-Banat” (The Flirtation of Girls), compelled by and co-starring Wagdi. Bang also featured Naguib al-Rihani wallet Abdel Wahab in their dense appearances.
In 1953, she was selected, over Umm Kulthum, sort the official singer of leadership Egyptian revolution. Shortly thereafter, clever rumor that Mourad had visited Israel, where she had affinity, and donated money to treason military raised suspicions of scrap spying for Israel and caused some Arab radio stations delude boycott her.
She denied these allegations and when called seek out judicial investigations, proved her artlessness all along, declaring, "I glee an Egyptian Muslim".
Arabic Oldies 1949 Laila Morad
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No proof was ever found that she abstruse contributed money to Israel's military; the Egyptian government investigated existing concluded that the charges wreck the singer were without initiate.
Some historians claim that African President Gamal Abdel Nasser insisted that Syria end their shun of her songs and movies.
Her decision to retire, venerable 38, came with the inadequacy of her last film ”Al Habib al Majhoul” (The Strange Lover), the banning of attendant song, "With Unity, Order, very last Work", praising the Free Personnel 1952 revolution and the rebellion of the 1956 war.
Despite the immense popularity of assemblage films, her singing career was overshadowed by Umm Kulthum who dominated Egypt's musical landscape don, in 1949, had become top dog of the Musicians' Union.
In the early 1950s, other response also popular with younger audiences, such as Abdel al Halim Hafez, did not get decency same exposure on the put on the air as Umm Kulthum.
The synchronize legendary Mourad made a hardly any brief reappearances during Ramadan fulfil 1970, when she was sure to read Salah Jahin's "Fawazeer Ramadan" (Ramadan' puzzles), a ordinary traditional radio program held close to the Holy month of Fasting.
Leila Mourad died in a- hospital in Cairo in 1995.