11 Facts About Samira Tewfik

Samira Ghastin Karimona, better known by her stage name Samira Toufic is a Lebanese singer who gained fame in the Arab world for her specializing in singing in the Bedouin Shawi Arabic.

Samira Tewfik often climbed a tree at her home and sang his songs aloud.

Samira Tewfik was heard by musician Albert Ghaoui, who was impressed with her voice and asked her father to become her musical mentor.

Samira Tewfik gained her stage name "Tawfiq" when she declared al-Tawfiq Min Allah.

Samira Tewfik's first hit on Radio Beirut was a song originally sung by Bayoumi called Maskin Ya Qalbi Yama Tlaawat.

Samira Tewfik struggled for success in Lebanon, due to the highly popular competing acts of Fairuz, Sabah and Wadi al-Safi, but she excelled after basing herself in Jordan in the 1960s and 1970s.

Samira Tewfik performed her first concert at a Jordanian village called Ainata and the following day was invited to perform at an event attended by King Hussein.

Samira Tewfik became the representative of Jordanian music to the Arab world by singing with the dialect of Jordan.

Samira Tewfik became famous in Jordan for the nationalist-inspired songs Diritna al-Urduniya and Urdunn al-Quffiya al-Hamra, both songs that sought marry the concepts of the traditional Arab Jordanian culture and a Jordanian sense of nationhood.

Samira Tewfik is generally considered the first major artist to represent Jordanian music and make it popular in the Arab world.

Nonetheless, Samira Tewfik's popularity was not matched by other Jordanian singers until the early 1990s with the singer Umar al-Abdallat.