Wadād

Biography

Singer Wadad, previously Bibi and Bahiyya Wehbe, was born in Tunis in 1931 to Faraj Awad and Salha al-Masriyya and died on 20 February 2009.

Interview research documents her family’s Beirut settlement and radio beginnings; contemporary press dates her marriage to Tawfiq Basha to autumn 1955. Sami al-Sidawi and Zaki Nasif were collaborators. Some stories and song credits remain unverified.