25 Facts About Nagat El-Sagheera

Nagat El-Sagheera is an Egyptian singer and actress.

Nagat El-Sagheera retired from filming in 1976 and from singing in 2002.

Nagat El-Sagheera's works are a part of Egyptian music from the "golden age" of the 1940s, '50s and '60s.

Nagat El-Sagheera El Sagheera was born in Cairo, Egypt on 11 August 1938 as the daughter of prominent Kurdish-EgyptianArabic calligrapher Mohammad Hosni, who hailed from Damascus, and an Egyptian mother.

Nagat El-Sagheera grew up in a household that was frequented by leading artists and calligraphers.

Nagat El-Sagheera was singing at family gatherings from the age of five.

Nagat El-Sagheera made her first film, Hadiya at the age of eight.

Nagat El-Sagheera is reported to have performed songs by the diva, Umm Kulthum, from the age of 7 years.

Nagat El-Sagheera gained many fans after releasing the song, Irja Ilyya, based on a poem by Nizar Qabbani whose sister had committed suicide rather than enter into an arranged marriage.

Nagat El-Sagheera is one of eight siblings from her father's first marriage; as well as three half-sisters from her father's second marriage to Gawhara.

Nagat El-Sagheera nurtured his children's talents and encouraged them to pursue careers in the performing and visual arts.

Nagat El-Sagheera's son, Ezz Eddin Hosni was a noted composer and taught Nagat music and singing.

Nagat El-Sagheera's other brother, Farooq, was a painter whose daughter, Samira, would later become an actress.

Nagat El-Sagheera's first marriage was at young age, in 1955, when she was 16 years old to an Egyptian man called Kamal Mansi who was a friend of her brother.

Nagat El-Sagheera was divorced around 1960 and remarried in 1967.

Nagat El-Sagheera divorced from her second husband, Egyptian film director Houssam El-Din Mustafa, shortly afterwards and has remained single to date.

Nagat El-Sagheera claimed that such training hindered the natural process of her voice development and that she should be left alone to develop freely without it.

Nagat El-Sagheera broke away from imitating other singers when she released her own first song in 1955 at the age of 16 years.

Nagat El-Sagheera has sung at least four of his poems, all of which were composed by Abdul Wahab.

Nagat El-Sagheera built on this success in subsequent years, despite the difficulty of finding new outstanding poems and corresponding music compositions.

Nizar Qabbani a Syrian diplomat and one of the most revered contemporary poets in the Arab world said in a TV interview that he hoped to attract some 15 thousand readers when he published a book of poetry, but when Nagat El-Sagheera sang one of his poems it attracted millions in the Arab-speaking world.

Nagat El-Sagheera starred in 13 Egyptian movies then retired from acting in 1976 at the age of only 37.

Nagat El-Sagheera was extremely cautious with and meticulous in her choice of her lyrics.

Nagat El-Sagheera was talking from Germany where she was receiving medical treatment.

In 2015, social media chatter indicated Nagat El-Sagheera was receiving physiotherapy and there were some concerns about her health.