Sabah

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Birth name Jeanette Gergis Feghali
Nationality Liban
Birth 9 november 1927
Death 26 november 2014 (at 87 years)

Sabah (Arabic: صباح‎; born Jeanette Gergis Al-Feghali, 10 November 1927, Bdadoun, Lebanon – 26 November 2014) was a Lebanese singer and actress. Considered a "Diva of Music" in the Arab World, (the same title often given to Oum Kalthoum, Warda Al-Jazairia and Fairuz), she released over 50 albums and acted in 98 movies as well as over 20 stage Lebanese plays. She had a reported more than 3,500 songs in her repertoire. She was among the first Arabic singers to perform at the Olympia in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Piccadilly Theatre in London and at the Sydney Opera House. She was considered one of the four Lebanese icons along with Fairuz, Wadih El Safi and Samira Tawfiq and was nicknamed "Empress of the Lebanese Song" (Arabic: إمبراطورة الأغنية اللبنانية‎). She is considered one of the greatest Arab singers.

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Sabah married seven times, most notably to Egyptian actor Roshdi Abaza and Lebanese author-director Wassim Tabbara. Her last marriage, to Lebanese artist Fadi Lubnan, and the Lebanese business man Najib Chammas, the Egyptian Anwar Mansy . She had two children, doctor Sabah Chammas and actress Howayda Mansy.

In her advanced age, refusal to leave the limelight, as well as her garish outfits. But she was unabashed: "I'm proud that I'm a village girl but I had a lot of ambition," she said in 2008. Chady Maalouf, head of programming at Voice of Lebanon radio said, "She broke so many taboos. I don't know if she was even aware of it...She was the example of a star, she was totally complete in her appearance, behaviour and voice. She shocked people all the time." It should be also added that she was known for her truly remarkable joie de vivre as she irradiated to her public a sense of happiness and goodness in embodiment of a belle époque in the modern Arab world!

She lived many love stories but she never found love. She said in one of her interviews that her ex-husbands usually called her Mrs. Bank. They got married to her just because of her big fortune, and that's why none of her love relationships continued with success, and not to mention of how many times she got cheated by them, Wassim Tabbara cheated on her, Najib Chammas wanted her to get away from the spotlights and to be a housewife, Anwar Mansi was a poker addicted person and he was beating her as well.