Nagwa Fouad belly dance with the legend singer Karem Mahmoud who gave her the first real opportunity ,she was crying at her first party cause her musicians didn't come and she was going to leave as Karem Mahmoud an Egyptian famous singer in this days stopped her and asked her why she cry ;when she told him that her musicians didn't arrive he told her not to worry i will sing and you can dance and that was Nagwa fouad first real step to the belly dance star world
Maya Sarsa belly dance journey
Maya Sarsa from Egypt
Maya Sarsa After working in Marsa Matroh at the end of 2007 , Maya is very popular in the private parties of Alexandriasoon she was heard about in Cairo and Maya started belly dancing in several prestiges hotels ( Marriott , Sheraton , Meridien , gran hyatt , etc )Nowadays Maya is one of the most requested dancer for wedding the rich families, accompanied by her orchestra and the famous drummer Farouk Sarsa check her belly dance video
Belly dancer from Greece
Lia verra from Greece
Lia’s style is classic Egyptian (Raqs Sharqi).Her dance is elegant and expressive, and is characterized by her sensual presence and her intense personality.Presently Lia is choreographing group and solo dancers, she teaches classes and workshops and is performing in Greece and abroad.
check her free belly dance video clips at http://www.bestsbest.com/liaverra1.html
Kamala USA belly dance legend
Kamala in my opinion is considered one of the legends of belly dance in the united stats,Kamala currently teaches in So California. Kamala’s students perform under the names “Orchids Al Sahara”, “Flower Buds of the Desert”, “Viridiana ,Roxanna” and “Gems of the Nile”. Her students continue to win competitions, and many have become successful professional dancers, including“Belly Dance Superstars”.
She is USA belly dancer in 70's
Belly dance legend Sema yildiz
The Turkish Belly dance legend Sema yildiz
Born as a farmers daughter in Fatih - Istanbul, the only girl within 5 children. Started her education in Karagumruk Elementary school where mostly "gypsy" musician's children attended. And in those days "Sulukule" gypsies were performing public belly dance shows in their houses, these shows are still going on. Sema grew up amongst them learning how to dance. Time to time a manager named "Sadri Bey" took them to perform on shows in US military bases. During 60's Indian films were very popular in Turkey. She was deeply influenced by the dances of Indian film star Nergis during her childhood and started imitating her figures. As she grew up she started dancing in wedding halls and small clubs, where cha-cha, tango and twist dances were mostly danced. Then one day she met the famous Turkish Belly dancer Özcan Tekgül, she was affected by her style and learned very much from her. Tha road to fame for Sema started by a belly-dance competition in 1967 in Caddebostan Casino . She won the 3rd. price but attracted a manager who was quite popular Mr. Engin Arinmis. Mr. Engin opened the doors of fame, popularity and professional career for her. Sema is recognised as one of Turkey’s leading dance teachers and she has taught nearly all of the well known dancers currently performing in Turkey including Asena, Didem.
Belly dance legend Katie
Katie كيتي
1927 - Unknown
There is not many information about Katie ;Katie is Greek her real name is Katriny Fotsakishe worked in nearly 10 films the most famous one is afreta hanem with Ismail Yassin
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Belly dance by video clip by katy in the old Egyptian movies
ebn zawat 1953 with the voice of Mohamed kandeel
Belly dance legend Zeinat Olwi
Zeinat Olwi زينات علوى
1930 - 1988
Ayam we layali ( Days and nights )
Elzoga el talatashar ( wife number 13 )
and many other great movies
you can see here belly dance video clip
Zeinat Olwi died very very poor and she was lonely in her last days
god bless her
Belly dance legend Naima Akef
NAIMA AKEF نعيمة عاكف
1929 - 1966
1929 - 1966
Naima Akef was born in Tanta . Her parents were acrobats in the Akef Circus (run by Naima’s grandfather), which was one of the best known circuses at the time. She started performing in the circus at the age of four, and quickly became one of the most popular acts with her acrobatic skills. Her family was based in the Bab el Khalq district of Cairo, but they traveled far and wide in order to perform;
The circus disbanded when Naima was 14, but this was only the beginning of her career. Her grandfather had many connections in the performance world of Cairo and he introduced her to his friends. When Naima’s parents divorced, she formed an acrobatic and clown act that performed in many clubs throughout Cairo. She then got the chance to work in Badeia Masabny's famous nightclub, where she became a star and was one of the very few who danced and sang. Her time with Badeia, however, was short-lived, as Badeia favored her, which made the other performers jealous. One day they ganged up on her and attempted to beat her up, but she proved to be stronger and more agile and won the fight. This caused her to be fired, so she started performing elsewhere;
The Kit Kat club was another famous venue in Cairo, and this is where Naima was introduced to film director Abbas Kemal. His brother Hussein Fawzy, also a film director, was very interested in having Naima star in one of his musical films. The first of such films was “Al-Eïch wal malh” (bread and salt). Her costar was singer Saad Abdel Wahab, the nephew of the legendary singer and composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab. The film premiered on the 17th of January 1949, and was an instant success, bringing recognition also to Nahhas Film studios.
she was nominated as best dancer of the world in a folklore contest at the Youth Festival in Moscow 1957. Naima's name is still on the wall of the Bolshoi under her picture;
she retired in the age of 35 and she died at the age of 37 from cancer
You can check all her belly dance video clips
So simple as if the music is coming from her ,dancing on Aziza
So simple as if the music is coming from her ,dancing on Aziza
Belly dance legend Tahia Karioka
Tahia Karioka تحية كريوكا
1915 -------- 1999
Tahia Karioka was born in 1915 in Ismaileya Egypt her real name was Badawiya Mohamed Karim... and ran away from her home to tha capital Cairo by the age
of 14 ; Tahia Karioka excelled at Brazilian dance called Karioka which she got the name from ; Tahia Karioka danced in the procession for King Farouk’s
wedding. He was 16 at the time and had just been crowned king after the death of his father. She performed to music sung by the great Om Kalthoum;
Om Kalthoum the legend of arab voice once said that Tahia Carioca is an “artist who can sing with her body”
Tahia Karioka was married 14 times
... she even got married from an
American but didn't last long
Tahia Karioka died on September 20, 1999
of a heart attack at age 84.
but she will always be one of the legends of
Belly dance
of a heart attack at age 84.
but she will always be one of the legends of
Belly dance
Belly dance legend Samia Gamal
Samia Gamal سامية جمال
1924 - 1994
Samia Gamal real name is Zaynab Ibrahim Mahfuz; Samia's family moved to Cairo and settled near the Khan El-Khalili bazaar and after many years she found badia masabni whom give her the name of Samia Gamal and offered her to join the dance company
Samia Gamal was the first belly dancer who used high heeled shoes on stage
In 1949, Egypt's King Farouk proclaimed Samia Gamal "The National Dancer of Egypt"In 1950, Samia Gamal came to the US and was photographed by G. John Mili. She also performed in The Latin Quarter, New York's trendy nightclub. She later married so-called "Texas millionaire" Shepherd King but it didn't last long
Samia Gamal married Roshdy Abaza, one of the most famous Egyptian actors with whom Samia starred in a number of movies as well;Samia Gamal died on December 1, 1994, 70 years of age in Cairo, Egypt.
forever she will be in minds of the art of belly dancer history
forever she will be in minds of the art of belly dancer history
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belly dance samia gamal in the movie khad elgameel with the voice of abd el aziz mahmoud the song name is ala kol raks gameel
Belly dance legend Nagwa Fouad
Nagwa Fouad نجوي فؤاد
1943
Nagwa Fouad was born in Alexandria, to an Egyptian father and a Palestinian mother from Nablus. Her parents went to Jaffa when she was three-months-old. There, she spent the first few years of her life..Her mother died a few months after Nagwa was born and her father married another Palestinian woman, whom the young child loved as her mother and who was to become Nagwa's only source of support in the difficult years ahead.Sometime in the 1950s, Nagwa, aged 14, managed to get a job as a telephone receptionist at the office of Orabi, agent to the stars. "When Orabi saw me dance, he persuaded me to rent a belly-dancer's costume for 50 piastres and take to the stage."Nagwa Fouad began dancing at Sahara City, a famous night-club at the foot of the Pyramids, then moved to the glamorous Auberge des Pyramides;Back to the real beginning: the first step was her marriage to Ahmed Fouad Hassan, the late musician and conductor. He gave Nagwa Fouad her "first big break", giving her a chance to appear in the popular 1960s stage show Adwaa Al-Madina (City Lights), which had featured such superstars as Shadia, Abdel-Halim Hafez, Fayza Ahmed, and Sabah.
In 1976, Nagwa Fouad reached the apex of her career when Mohamed Abdel-Wahab composed a special piece for her, called Qamar Arba'tashar (Full Moon). Her performance to this melody allowed her to change the way belly-dancing was presented on stage, transforming it from a somewhat denigrated form of entertainment into a lavish spectacle, all graceful swirls and floating chiffon. "I took the oriental dancing of Tahiya Karioka and Samia Gamal, and created a stage show like a dramatic piece," she says.Dancing was her only priority. This triggered her divorce from Hassan after six years of marriage: "He wanted a baby and I was not interested at all. We remained friends after the divorce, though. I was starting my career, and I was utterly convinced that one crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
She earned thousands as a dancer, but always managed to spend more, "because you cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new."She formed a group of 12 dancers and 35 musicians and singers, one choreographer and one costume designer. "It was a sort of a small-scale mobile theatre, we toured the country and gave performances everywhere."
Her first role in cinema was a tiny part in Shari' Al-Hob (Love Street), starring Abdel-Halim Hafez. A major role followed in Malak wa Shaytan (Angel and Devil). "I was trained vocally for this film and I learned how to act as well." Since then, Fouad has acted in over 100 films and danced in over 250,Nagwa Fouad has had to fight for recognition that belly-dancing is worthy of respect. In a world where many entertainers have to put up with the bad name their craft has acquired, she insists on the importance of dance. If she waxes a little lyrical -- "you can smell the perfume of the East and experience one of the Thousand and One Nights" -- it is only a reaction to those who would see in her no more than a pretty face or an attractive "artiste".Although Nagwa Fouad no longer dances in night-clubs, she still works in theatre and on television. In the serial Zizinia, she plays Badia Masabni, the meteoric dancer who owned one of Cairo's most famous clubs, Salet Badia, where Tahiya Karioka and Samia Gamal, as well as singers like Farid El-Atrash, started out in the 1940s. There is more in common between Nagwa and Badia than one would suppose at first glance: the legendary beauty, of course, and the willingness of self-made women in traditional times to acquiesce to the illusion of male protection. But most important, perhaps, is the staying power: the refusal to recognise that one can go down any way but fighting.
Here are the best classic video clips of her belly dance
Nagwa Fouad belly dance legend in a movie
Nagwa Fouad belly dance legend in the movie bent el badia 1958
Belly Dance رقص شرقي - نجوي فؤاد Nagwa Fouad
The main character of the Egyptian belly dance
Badia Masabni was a Lebanese
dancer who was the main charctor in
changing the Egyptian dance scene. In
1926 she open the Casino Opera;
which where the place that gathered
most of the legends of belly dance
Badia Masabni: (1893-1974)
A rare short video clip for the legend of belly dance Badia Masabni
in an interview talks about the legend Egyptian singer
Abdelwahab
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