She is a Lebanese singer and artist, her real name is “Majid Halim El-Roumi”, better known by the name Magda El-Roumi.
She was born in 1956 in Lebanon, holds a BA in Arabic literature from the Lebanese University, and 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. Her father entered the field, but after his approval, she participated in the “Studio El Fan” program and won superiority after she dazzled 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, participated in one cinematic work, and 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 Suheir Al Morshedy, and the film achieved great success.
The artist, Magda El Roumi, married her husband, “Antoine Dafouni,” and the marriage resulted in the birth of two daughters, “Hala and Nour.”
And she added that she was insulted by her husband after 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, and she went to her family’s house without her clothes or money, and he blackmailed her until he completed the divorce procedures, and indeed Magda waived her rights in order to This marriage ends, announcing her retirement from love as she sang later.