Biography
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Born
1965 (age 60)
There are four known artists with this name:
1. Nawal, also referred to as Nawal Al Kuwaitia, is a Kuwaiti vocalist who sings primarily in the Gulf/Khaliji Arabic dialect. Her music ranges from ballads to pop, and she has explored numerous genres, singing in Egyptian Arabic and Algerian Arabic also.
2. Nawal originally comes from the Comoros Islands, also known as the “Perfume Islands” or “Islands of the Moon”, located in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. Born into a family with many musicians, Nawal has been influenced by both popular and religious music from a young age, both in her native islands and in her new home in France. Nawal sings in Comoran, Arabic, French and English. Playing an acoustic roots-based fusion, she is known as the “Voice of Comoros”. Nawal is also the first Comoran woman singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist to give performances in public.
3. A Colombian reggae Band, inspired by the Jamaican sounds of the 70s and the 80s. ROLLINGSTONE magazine ranked their debut album "EL FUEGO Y LA PALABRA" as 32 in the top 50 of the best albums released worldwide in 2005.
They can be found on myspace here: http://www.myspace.com/nawalreggae
4. Nawal Abdechaffi is a Moroccan singer-songwriter and is one of the biggest singers in the middle east. She released her 1st single, "Benty Habebti," in October 2019. In August 2023, she became the first female artist to ever have a song reach the #1 spot on the Egyptian music charts, with her hit single "Mekhasmak."
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