Elissa on her birthday ... "Things you may not know about."

On October 27, Elissa celebrates her birthday surrounded by friends, family and loved ones.

She has succeeded in weaving a network of relationships, surrounded herself with close friends, and is considered one of the most popular and record-breaking artists in her career.

What are the most important stages in Elisa's life, which began her career with disappointment that only increased her determination to become a difficult figure in the art scene?

Elissar Zakaria Khoury, born to a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother. Her family consists of 3 daughters of Alissar, Norma and Rita and 3 young men Ghassan, Jihad and Kamil.

Her father was a poet and professor of Arabic and her relationship with him was very strong. He died in 2004, leaving an untreated wound in her heart.



She studied in a boarding school and saw her family only on holidays. "The boarding school was the reason for my character and I learned to rely on myself away from my parents. This issue made me strong and capable of confronting and knowing what I wanted," she said. In boarding school. "

She studied political science at the Faculty of Law at the Lebanese University at the request of her father, but did not complete her university. To this day, she still cares about politics and launches bold positions, but is not alarmed by the reactions to her positions.



She started her career as an actress in the Schonneier theater with the late Wassim Tabbara, where she sang in the plays she participated in.

She went to Studio El Fann in 1992, and sang Shadia's "In Your Eyes," which the director Simon Asmar did not believe in, and did not support.

Before becoming an artist, Elissa wanted to be a TV presenter, and she applied to casting at LBC and other stations, but she did not succeed in her mission.

Her first album was "Badi Dob" in 1998, when she appeared in bedspreads in the famous clip.

- The album "Ayshalak" in 2002 was dedicated by a star with a wide audience, and won for the first time the Murex d'Or for the category of the best Arab artist.


In 2004, she released her fourth album "Ahla Dunya", for which she won the World Music Award for the biggest sales of a singer in the Middle East, and then won two awards from the festival itself.


- The album "Tesadak Bimin" in 2009, achieved sales reached 750 thousand copies within days, and the total sales exceeded 6 million copies, making it the best-selling artist in the history of the company Rotana.

She has sold more than 30 million copies of her albums throughout her career, making her one of the best-selling artists of all time in the Middle East.


- Forbes magazine ranked it in 2017 as one of the richest artists in the Arab world with a fortune estimated at $ 48 million.



- Participated three times in the jury, twice in X Factor and once in The Voice.



- Her emotional life remained far from the media. She was about to be associated with a Libyan businessman years ago, but their relationship ended in failure. She was also associated with a young Lebanese man who lived with him with great love.



- She developed breast cancer in late 2017, succeeded in her battle with him, and turned her experience into an inspiring story in the clip "To all who love me."

- She was interested in women's issues, and touched on the issue of violence against women in the clip "To all who love me" and her videos with director Angie Jamal achieved great success.

A few weeks ago, she announced her resentment about the atmosphere of the art scene and said in a surprise tweet that her next album will be the last one.

- She is one of the artists who have maintained a steady march, which did not know her career up and down, but her rhythm was ascending, and has always succeeded in providing controversial artwork, maintaining the level of sophistication that made her deserve the title of "Queen of Romance."