Laila Ghofran left to Paris and London due to her family's rejection of her interest in pursuing a career in music, and started singing for Arab communities in hotels and restaurants.
14 Facts About Laila Ghofran
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Laila Ghofran released her first song in Moroccan dialect, titled "El Youm El Awel" in 1982, which was well-received in Morocco.
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Out of fear of her father and in order to protect her family, she took the name "Laila Ghofran" to be her stage name before she officially kicked off her career as a singer.
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Laila Ghofran found her way to audiences again in 2005 with her most popular and successful song, "Ashalhalk", which is considered to be her signature song.
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Laila Ghofran announced that she would be experimenting different and new music genres in an album that she had prepared for release in 2008.
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The album, whose title was the same, had moderate success amidst controversies accusing Laila Ghofran of using her daughter's case to promote the album.
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Laila Ghofran returned to the music scene with a single titled "Jabni L'ghram" in 2018.
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In 2020, Laila Ghofran intended to comeback to the music scene and thus recorded a song titled "Ya Masa' El Louz" and filmed a music video for it with director Mohammad Anees.
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In 2024, Laila Ghofran said that she would take a break from the music industry for personal reasons.
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Laila Ghofran was married five times and is the mother of two daughters.
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Laila Ghofran then married Iraqi singer Fouad Masoud, with whom she had a daughter named Nagham.
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Laila Ghofran later married businessmen Ismail Khurshid, Adham Mohammad and divorced them.
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Laila Ghofran married Murad Abu Al-Ainayn in 2008 and the couple got divorced in 2015.
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Laila Ghofran then reported the crime to the police and rushed his fiance to the hospital, where she later died.