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.