I stumbled upon this article today and was surprised by the real names of some Lebanese artists.
Here are the names listed in the article:
Sabah: Janet Feghali
Assi el Hellani: Mohammad el Hellani
Yara: Karla Berkachi
Melhem Zein: Melhem el Toufayli
Zein El Omr: Tony Hadchity
Elissa: Elissar Khoury
Fairouz: Nohad Haddad
Wael Kfoury: Michel Kfoury (Michel is cooler than Wael)
Walid Toufic: Walid Tutunji
Wadih el Safi: Wadih Francis
Hani el Omari: Toni Dani Maghamess (Drastic change!)
Alaa Zalzali: Ali Zalzali
Rami Ayyash: Rami Bou Ayyash
What are they, porn stars?
What was so surprising?
Isn’t Zein El Omar Tony Hadchidi? Wallaw?
Gianni,
U r right. One of the entries got removed while I was posting it. Zein el Omar and Melhem Zein got mixed up. I fixed it thanks
Interesting how people with Christian names change them to more Arab sounding names so that they can appeal to the Arab world.
Even the ones with muslim names:
Ali becomes Alaa… Mohammad becomes Assi.