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Born Jeanette Feghali and known to her fans as the "singing
bird", Sabah recorded at least 4,000 songs in her lifetime,
experts on her career say.
In the mid-1970s, she became the second Arab singer after
Egypt's Oum Kalthoum to perform at L'Olympia in Paris. She also
performed at London's Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera
House.
Known affectionately across the Arab world as "Sabouha", a
diminutive of Sabah, she began her singing and acting career in
the 1940s in Egypt, the center of Arab cinema and entertainment.
She acted in 83 movies that played to audiences across the
Arabic-speaking world and in 27 Lebanese plays.
Sabah married formally seven times. Her husbands included a
politician and some of the Arab world's famous actors and
musicians.
(Reporting by Laila Bassam; Writing by Suleiman al-Khalidi;
Editing by Larry King)
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