Walid Toufic
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Walid Toutounji (Template:Langx), also known as Walid Toufic, born April 8, 1954,[1] is a Lebanese singer and actor.
Biography
Walid Toufic, born Walid Toutounji, grew up with his Sunni family in Tripoli, Lebanon.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He later relocated to western Beirut and lived in the residential area of Ibn Rashd Street.[2] His first oud tutor was the blind Amin Azar. During this period, Toufic worked to raise enough money for his music lessons.[3]
Toufic became popular and made his big break in Egypt. His acting career began soon afterwards where he starred in movies with various Egyptian and Arab stars in Egyptian cinema, including Farid al-Atrash, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Madiha Yousri, Samir Ghanem, Laila Elwi, Duraid Lahham, Huda Sultan, Saeed Saleh, Raghda, and Athar El-Hakim, among others.[2][3]
Toufic had a longstanding collaboration with Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi.[4] Songs like Ehna El-Tayibin and Sinin Ahbab were met with success. Meeting prominent 20th-century Arab-Egyptian singer and composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab played a substantial part in influencing Toufic.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Toufic's song subjects include love and patriotism of his home country, Lebanon, and the Arab world at large.[4] His popularity in the Arab world has won him the title of The Arab Star given to him by Lebanese journalist George Khoury.[4]
He is married to Georgina Rizk, Miss Universe 1971. They have two children.[1]
External links
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References
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- 1954 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Lebanese male singers
- Lebanese Sunni Muslims
- People from Tripoli, Lebanon
- 21st-century Lebanese male singers
- Lebanese male film actors
- Lebanese male television actors
- Singers who perform in Classical Arabic
- Singers who perform in Egyptian Arabic
- Arabic-language singers of Lebanon