Makadi nahas biography of barack

AMMAN: Early in her career, Macadi Nahhas was presented with a simple choice. The Jordanian singer was invited to meet a producer who — before listening to a note of the CD that the young, hopeful, 20-year-old was clutching — had one request: Turn around.

“So I left,” she says, recalling this career crossroads 21 year later. “‘Turn around’ — what do you want? Sadly, this is the way it happens. All these stars, sorry to say they’re not stars because of what they have — a voice or a message — they are plastic stars, and they pay for that. Bad things happen to these people, the A-class artists, they pay for it big time.”

Nahhas is deservedly proud, and not just of what she’s accomplished — four albums, sold-out concerts across the Middle East and Europe — but of how she did it. Inspired by the pure, uncompromised lineage of heroes such as Fayrouz and Julia Boutros, Nahhas earned an enviable reputation for rediscovering a