Iconic Syrian singer, Mayada El Hennawy, will headline this year’s Mawazine Festival.
Mawazine is a Moroccan international music festival that began in 2001 and is hosting its 20th edition this year.
As one of the largest music festivals in the world, Mawazine attracts more than 2.5 million attendees each year. This year’s Mawazine festival is scheduled to be held from June 19 to 27 in Rabat, Morocco.
El Hennawy is set to perform at the festival's stage, the National Theater of Mohammed V, on June 19.
She is set to present several of her popular and latest songs.
El Hennawy, was born on October 8, 1959, in a music-loving family, she was discovered by Egyptian composer musician, and singer-songwriter Mohamed Abdel Wahab when at the age of 18, she was performing in Bloudan, Syria.
She lived a huge part of her life in Egypt where she collaborated with many famous Egyptian musical composers like Mohamed El Mougy and Mohamed Abdel Wahab, who created popular musicals of her songs.
Abdel Wahab named her "Moutribat el Jeel" (The Songstress of the Generation) and invited her to Egypt to write songs for her. Mayada's sister Faten was also a very promising singer as well.
Her biggest launch as a pan-Arab singer came with her collaboration with songwriter Baligh Hamdi in the 1980s. Her most famous songs include "Ana Ba'sha'ak", "El Hob illi Kan", "Ana A'mel Eh", "Sidi Ana", and "Indi Kalam". Riad El Sounbati also composed for El Hennawy.
In her earlier career, she also sang songs written by Mohammed Sultan, Hilmi Bakr, and Jamal Salameh, and in the 1990s, Sami El Hefnawi, Salah al Sharnoubi, Mohammed Sultan, Ammar El Sherei, and Khaled Al-Amir.
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