Sabah
10 November 1927 – 26 November 2014
Sabah, born Jeanette Gergis Feghali, was a Lebanese singer and actress whose career spanned more than six decades. She recorded a large body of Lebanese and Egyptian songs and appeared in dozens of Egyptian films from the late 1940s onward. She was widely known by the stage names Sabah and al-Shahroura.
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Life events
Born Jeanette Gergis Feghali into a Lebanese Maronite family.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgRelocated to Cairo, then the centre of the Arab film industry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer first leading film role, for which she took the stage name Sabah.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAppeared in a long series of Egyptian musical films through the 1950s and 1960s.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTook part in the Lebanese festival's programme of Lebanese musical theatre.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgOne of several marriages over the course of her life; the couple later divorced.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSettled in Beirut in her later years after periods spent in Egypt and the United States.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied at the age of 87; her funeral was held in Lebanon.
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