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Afifa Iskandar
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Afifa Iskandar Estefan (Arabic: عفيفة إسكندر إصطيفان, 10 December 1921[1] in Mosul, Iraq - 21 October 2012) was an Iraqi singer active from the mid-1930s to the first decade of the 21st century. She was considered one of the best female singers in Iraqi history. She was nicknamed the "Iraqi Blackbird".[2]
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Biography
Afifa Iskandar was born in Mosul to an Armenian father and a Greek mother. She lived in Baghdad, and started singing at the age of 5. At her first party in 1935,[3] she sang Al maqam. At the age of 12, she married an Armenian man named Iskandar Estefan and took his last name. She also worked as an actress and appeared in many productions.[4] In 1938, she traveled to Egypt to work with Badia Masabni, Taheyya Kariokka, and Mohamed Abdel Wahab. She died of cancer on 21 October 2012 in Baghdad.[5]
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On 10 December 2019, Google celebrated her 98th birthday with a Google Doodle.[6]
Singles
Iskandr sang nearly 1500 songs.[7] These include:
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