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Melhem Zein is a Lebanese singer. He first came to prominence in the first installation of the TV show "Super Star", the Arab world's equivalent of "American Idol". Melhem Zein's Lebanese following became so intense that when he was voted out of the show, a large crowd demonstrated in Beirut in protest Melhem Zein, also transliterated Melhem Zain (Arabic: ملحم زين‎) was born on October 21, 1982 in Shmistar, Lebanon. His stardom began after being ranked 3rd in Super Star 1, the Pan-Arab version of Pop Idol. Earlier, when he was 16, he first participated in an Amateur Singing Program...

Zein l'Abdin (1939 - 27 July, 2016) was a Kenyan taarab singer, oud player, multi-instrumentalist, poet, composer and bandleader of Zein Musical Party. Zein l’Abdin Ahmed Alamoody was born in 1939 on the Island of Lamu on the northern Kenya coast. From the late 1960s onwards Zein became something like the musical father of the Mombasa taarab scene, with all of today's famous musicians, at one point or another in their career, passing through Zein's group. The Zein Musical Party thus featured the voices of Maulidi, Zuhura Swaleh and Malika, Mohamed Mbwana's harmonium or organ, or Bakari Salim's accordion. Zein's...

Zein Al-Jundi was born and raised in Damascus, Syria She began singing professionally at the early age of five when she was discovered by a local TV producer as a talent with a promising future. For the next twelve years, Ms. Al-Jundi became a household name on the Syrian radio and TV channels as well as concert halls in the capitol city of Damascus and elsewhere. During those years she won numerous singing competitions and sang a large repertoire of original music composed for her. In 1974, she was picked at the age of 13 by the Syrian government to...