Meet Soad Mohammad, The Underrated Diva

She was born in Lebanon for an Egyptian father and a Syrian mother in 1935. So she combined the best of Arabic art homes. Almost all great Arabic music comes from one of those three places. But for some reason, Soad lacks the name recognition of other Arab singers of her time, not sure why that is. I know she is well known for her songs that accompanied the movie, "AlShimaa".

Soad started her music career in Syria where she used to live in Damascus, she started on the radio performing the famous Mowasha'hat. Moving then to Halab, the Syrian city with great musical tradition where she was described as the best female voice ever heard in that part of the world. Composer Mohammad Mohsen took her under his wings.

Then she moved to Cairo to play a role in a movie titled "A Girl Women From Palestine" a drama about Palestine. She made a second movie "I am Alone". Then she focused on her singing career. She recorded 3 thousand songs in both the Syrian, Egyptian and Arab radios.

Khaled Agag and Shima Al Shaib, two Egyptain singers that did covers of her older songs and made their careers and helped introduce me to this underrated Arab diva.


Souad Mohamed - Iradat alhayat سعاد محمد تغني الشابي - ارادة الحياة




وحشتني عدد نجوم السما - سعاد محمد