Add as preferred on Google

FAN REACTIONS

Your take on Fairuz

—

Loading reactions…

Reactions on HowSociable. One saved choice per browser; change it anytime.

Life & work

The person behind the work.

Biography and career records reviewed 23 Oct 2026.

Born Nouhad Haddad, Fairuz sang in a school choir before Lebanese radio. Muhammad Fleifel recognised her voice; Halim Al Rumi supported her radio career and stage name.

American University of Beirut
Birth name
Nouhad HaddadAmerican University of Beirut
Early professional setting
Lebanese radioAmerican University of Beirut
Key collaborators
Assi and Mansour RahbaniAmerican University of Beirut
Later collaborator
Ziad RahbaniAmerican University of Beirut
Sacred repertoire
Holy Week musicAmerican University of Beirut

Personal profile

Fairuz, in detail

Select a detail to see its source.
AI-generated full-body illustration of Fairuz
Early professional settingLebanese radio
American University of Beirut profile Published profile · checked
AI illustration · not a body scan

The Rahbani theatre and sacred repertoire

With Assi and Mansour Rahbani, Fairuz performed village stories in musical theatre and outdoor productions at Baalbek. Her sacred recordings draw on several Christian traditions, extending her repertoire beyond popular song.

American University of Beirut

Later collaborations and Beirut

Later work with Ziad Rahbani brought a different musical setting to her voice. Her September 1994 concert in central Beirut marked a return to a city emerging from civil war, and she returned to the Baalbek festival in 1998.

American University of BeirutWereldmuseum Amsterdam

In pictures

Photographs with their original credits. Historical images do not imply a current appearance.

Portrait of Fairuz

Fairuz

photographer unknown, published by APPublic domainResized and converted to WebP. Display crop.

The published record

Career milestones.

Dated selections from the published record.

  1. 1952

    Itab

    Recorded the early song in Damascus.

    American University of Beirut
  2. 1957

    Baalbek

    Gave her first major outdoor festival performance.

    American University of Beirut
  3. 1994-09-17

    Beirut return

    Performed in central Beirut after the civil war.

    Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
  4. 1998

    Baalbek return

    Returned to the festival stage.

    American University of Beirut

Quick answers

The questions,
answered.

Answers grounded in the sources below.

What is Fairuz’s birth name?

Nouhad Haddad.

American University of Beirut
Is her catalogue only popular songs?

No. It also includes musical theatre and sacred repertoire.

American University of Beirut
Who are the Rahbani collaborators?

Assi and Mansour shaped her theatre and song work; she later collaborated with Ziad.

American University of Beirut

The source notes

Know what you’re looking at.

An independent HowSociable profile. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Fairuz.

Freshness, without guesswork

Statistics retain their source observation dates. A page refresh does not make a historical chart, career record or commercial estimate newer. Figures without a usable source observation are not displayed.

What the data can tell you

Public counts do not measure unique people, audience authenticity, private reach or actual earnings. Associated brand accounts are labeled separately from personal accounts, and sampled engagement is limited to the posts in that sample.

Source directory

Editorial research reviewed · HowSociable

Suggest a correction