Carole Samaha

**Carole Samaha** () is a Lebanese-Egyptian singer, actress, and performer. She has released six studio albums. Samaha has a master's degree in acting and directing, which she earned in 1999 from the Saint Joseph University of Beirut.
In 2004 she won the Arab Music Award for best female newcomer. She has also won multiple Murex d'Or awards and was nominated for best Arabia New Act in the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008.

## Early life

Samaha was born on 25 July 1972 in Beirut to Antoine Samaha from Khenchara, Matn and Nouhad Hawi from Dhour El Choueir, Matn. She has two brothers.
Her parents supported different political factions, according to Samaha that fact made her become "more open" to the different views of people and she learned a lot from that experience.

## Personal life

On 1 November  2013, Samaha married Walid Mostafa, a divorced Egyptian with a daughter from a previous marriage, in a civil ceremony in Cyprus following an 18-month love affair and short engagement. On 31 August 2015 Carole Samaha gave birth to a baby girl, Tala. She is a Maronite Catholic. From 2014, Samaha has been residing in Egypt with her husband.

## Discography

|Year|Album|Translation|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2003||حلم|A Dream|
||اغنية الطفولة|Children Songs|||
|2004||انا حرة|I'm Free||
|2006||أضواء الشهرة|Lights of Fame||
|2009||حدودي السما|The Sky Is My Limit||
|2013||إحساس|A Feeling||
|2016||ذكرياتي|Memories||

## Videography

|Year|Song|Album|Lebanese Charts|Egyptian Charts|Translation|Notes|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2003|Oughniat El Toufoula|_Oughniat El Toufoula_|align="center"||align="center"||Childhood Songs|||
|Habib Alby|rowspan="2"|_Helm_|align="center"|3|align="center"|**1**|My Love|first release apart from the Rahbani|||
|2004|Etalaa Feyi|align="center"|**1**|align="center"|4|Look At Me|casting Mister Lebanon 1997 Ghassan El Mawla||||
|rowspan="3"|2005|Ghali Alayi|rowspan="3"|_Ana Horra_|align="center"|**1**|align="center"|3|You Mean A Lot To Me||
|Nezlet El Sitara|align="center"|48|align="center"|32|The Curtain Fell||||||
|Habbeit Delwa't|align="center"|28|align="center"|2|Now that i loved|movie soundtrack|||||
|rowspan="2"|2006|Esmaani|rowspan="3"|_Adwa' Al Shohra_|align="center"|**1**|align="center"|19|Listen to me||
|Zaelni Mennak|align="center"|**1**|align="center"|18|I'm upset with you||||||
|rowspan="2"|2007|Adwa'a El Shohra|align="center"|13|align="center"|78|Lights of Fame|sponsored by Pepsi|||
|Ya Rabi|_Ana wlleil_ - Marwan Khoury|align="center"|**1**|align="center"|3|Oh God|ft. Marwan Khoury||||
|rowspan="3"|2008|Yama Layali|_Hdoudi Sama_|align="center"|43|align="center"|3|How Many Nights|sponsored by Pepsi||
|Jeet (Majnouni)|_Pepsi Sea of Stars_ - V/A, _Hdoudi Sama_|align="center"|**1**|align="center"|3|You Came (I Must Be Crazy)|movie soundtrack||||
|Ali|_Hdoudi Sama_|align="center"|7|align="center"|**1**|Ali|promotional single||||
|rowspan="4"|2009|Laily Lail|_The Gipsy Man Sings from the Middle East_ - Mario Reyes|align="center"||align="center"||–|ft. Mario Reyes, filmed in Morocco||
|Rag'aalak|rowspan=5|_Hodoudi Sama_|align="center"|**1**|align="center"|9|Coming Back To You|promotional single|||
|Zabahny|align="center"|97|align="center"|112|"Slaughtered" Me|promotional single|||||
|Ma Bkhaf|align="center"|**1**|align="center"|**1**|I Am Not Scared|first official single|||||
|rowspan="2"|2010|A'oul Ansak|align="center"|**1**|align="center"|**1**|I Try To Forget You|second official single|||
|Khallik Bhalak|align="center"|**1**|align="center"|**1**|Stay Away||||||
|rowspan="2"|2011|El Masry Ya Abu Dam|rowspan="3"||||||||
|Malika Ala El Ard||||a song from the TV series Al Shahroura|||||||
|rowspan="2"|2012|Wahshani Bladi|||||||||
|Wet3awadet|Ehssas||||||||||
|colspan="1"|2013|Ehssas|Ehssas||||||||

## Awards

- "Revelation of the year" (actress and singer) Murex d'Or in 2000.
- "Best female newcomer" Arab Music Award (2003) - This was the first year for which Arab Music Awards were awarded and the ceremony was held in Dubai in May 2004.
- "Best Polyvalent talent" (actress and singer) Murex d'Or in 2003.
- "Best Female Romantic Song" ("Tala3 Fiyyi") Murex d'Or in 2003.
- "Best Lebanese Female Singer" Murex d'Or in 2007.
- "Best Lebanese Song" ("Ya Rab", with Marwan Khoury) Murex d'Or in 2007.
- "Best album of the year" (_Hdoudi Sama_, 2009) Murex d'Or in June 2010.
- Samahe was honored for best music video – "Khalik Behalik" – at the 2011 Murex d'Or ceremony.
- World Music Award "Best Stage Performer in the Middle East" in Monaco 2014.

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Carole Samaha
- **native name**: كارول سماحة
- **image**: Carole Samaha in Beirut Holidays Festival - August 23, 2012.jpg
- **caption**: Carole Samaha
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth place**: Beirut, Lebanon
- **genre**: Arabic music
- **occupation**: Singer, actress
- **years active**: 1999–present
- **associated acts**: Marwan Khoury
- **website**: [http://www.carolesamaha.com/ www.carolesamaha.com]