Rahma Mezher Al-Basrah, is an Iraqi

Iraqi people

The Iraqi people or Mesopotamian people are natives or inhabitants of the country of Iraq, known since antiquity as Mesopotamia , with a large diaspora throughout the Arab World, Europe, the Americas, and...

 singer who rose to popularity after participating in Super Star 2, the pan-Arabic version of Pop Idol

Pop Idol

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. Rahma was eliminated from the beginning of the competition . However, this did not affect her ambitions of becoming a successful artist, as she continued on with her singing and took part in a Dubai TV channel called, "Najm El Khaleej"; in which she came 2nd and she participated in Star Academy 7

Star Academy Lebanon

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. and got in 2nd again with a popularity that reached all of the Arab world.

Biography

Rahma, who is the daughter of a well known Iraqi singer Riyadh Ahmad, was born in Iraq in 1987 on 19 January in Al-Basrah city. She loves singing, swimming, shopping, and her favorite sport is walking. Rahma says that she’s a very optimistic person, and she believes in true friendships.

She loved singing since she was little, and she studied singing to improve her voice and talent. She also says that her father the singer Riyadh Ahmad encouraged her a lot to sing; after his death in 1997 her mother kept on encouraging her to continue with improving her singing talents.
When she joined in super star, she said that she likes to listen to Kathem Al Saher

Kathem Al Saher

Kadim Al Sahir , is an Iraqi singer, composer, and poet. He has been dubbed the "Caesar of Arabic Song", "George Michael of the Arab world", "Iraq’s Diplomatic Ambassador to the world", and "Iraq’s Ambassador for Peace"....

, Warda Al-Jazairia

Warda Al-Jazairia

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, and Zekra. She also enjoys old songs, and the new Arabic songs.

Musical career

After her participation in the super star show, Rahma received so many offers for singing, acting, and even for modelling; in which she agreed to do resulting in more success and gaining a large fanbase.

Her experience with Najm Al Khaleej was much different than Super Star. In one of the episodes the Kuwait

Kuwait

The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...

i singer Nabeel Shuail was the guest of the show, and when he heard her voice when she performed on the stage, he was very impressed and he said it reminds him of the Moroccan

Morocco

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 singer Samira Said

Samira Said

Samira Said is an Egyptian-Moroccan singer.-Early career:Samira Said was born and raised in Rabat. She began singing at the age of 9 and she was discovered on a music program on Royal Moroccan TV, "Mawaheb," alongside another popular singer, Aziza Jalal, when she was 17. She was quickly...

’s voice. She did a great singing in that show and her beautiful voice rocked the place all over, she made it to the finals and won second place.

In one of the interviews she had with a journalist, she quotes

"I really want to win because it will be the first time an Iraqi has won anything like this and with Iraq being in such a bad position with all the violence, it will help raise their hopes.”

Mezher recently collaborated with fellow Iraqi singer Haytham Yousif, on the track "Erehmooni".

She currently lives in Bahrain

Bahrain

' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...

, and can also speak conversational Turkish

Turkish language

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External links

• Rahma Mezher at Facebook
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