Jury

A panel of eminent celebrities will give opinion on candidates and their performance. Their opinion is an integral part of the competition.

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Nawal El Zoghbi 

The Golden Star

"Golden Star" as her fans and media named her; Nawal El Zoghbi started her musical career through the talent show “Studio El Fan” in 1988, to become a professional singer in 1991. In 1992, Nawal released her debut album "Wehyati Andak", to release afterwards many successful albums throughout the years. Her musical career has succesfully spanned over 25 years to become the Golden Star among the Arab Singers.

Nawal became the number one female star of the nineties, with revolutionary video clips, looks and style.

Starting with the year 1994 and until 2002, Nawal released an album almost every year reigning as the number one female pop star of the Arab world for 8 consecutive years. Each year between 1994 and 2002 had at least one huge hit by Nawal such as "Ayza El Radd" in 1994 and "Balaee Fi Zamany" in 1995.  In 1996, Nawal sang a very famous duet with Lebanese singer Wael Kfoury called "Min Habibi Ana", this duo became the song of the year and the duo of the decade

Nawal performed in many countries around the Arab world such as Tunis, Algeria, Dubai, Lebanon, Qatar and the world like Canada and the U.S and most of her concerts were broadcasted on TV.

Starting from 2016, Nawal’s management was officially handed by Marcel El Zoghbi, the star brother.

Nawal released Keda Bye's album in February 2019, she also sang Prova series song released on April 2019.

Nawal chose to merge three songs in 1 clip released on July 2019, in a continuous story directed by Sherif Tarhini. And the songs are “Keda Bye, Gouwa Albou & Sabbah”

As a result of her huge success, Nawal won many awards including Murex D'or for many years and Arab music awards. She is also the face of many brands.

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Mohamed Rahim

Music Composer

Young Egyptian musician Mohamed Rahim one of the biggest people in the field of compositions and the star industry in Egypt and the Arab worlds for nearly 20 years studied at the faculty of Musical Eductions in Zamalek in Cairo. He is famous for his work in Egypt and Lebanon and the Arab world he has worked with many artists such as Amr Diab, Tamer Hosni, Mohamed Fouad, Elissa, Sherine Abdel Wahab and Nancy Ajram and so many more top artists in the Arab World.

In addition to his musical work he is also known for making music also in drama, cinematography and plays and the 2 billion views on youtube

In 2016, he gained the gold professional membership from SACEM in France.

In 2017, his name was listed in the World most important ten composers in the world after translating the pub for more than 10 foreign languages and spreading them all over the world. He was honored in 2018 from Egyptian Embassy in London on his whole work.

He reaped many awards including MEMA Award, “Dar-al-Joumhouria” Award, Egypt Radio Award, Nile Channels Award, Fox Music Award, Union of Arab Producers Award, Mohammad Abdel Wahab Award.

He is member of the preparatory committee at the Cairo Opera House, member of the Egypt’s syndicate of musical professions, member of the Creators Union of Arab, professional member of SACEM.

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Faisal Al Zahrani   

TV presenter

FAISAL AL-ZAHRANI is a well-known Saudi media man, and a radio&television and entertainment shows writer and presenter. With more than 400 events under his belt, he is one of the top three event hosts in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and has been recently selected among the 50 most influential figures on social media throughout the Arab world. He hosted more than 200 artists, contributed to the writing and composition of four operettas, and trained five kids on live news anchoring on Al-Arabiya TV.

On television, he began his career as a presenter of “Shelletna” show on Al-Aan TV, before presenting “Subscribe” and “Sabah Al Kheir Ya Aarab” on mbc1, “Desert Force” on mbc action, “Sabah Al Arabiya” on Al-Arabiya TV, and the Arabic version of the worldwide program “The Insider” on Dubai TV.

In the radio, he worked as a writer, director and executive producer for several social, artistic and sports programs. He has produced more than 500 advertisement ideas and recorded more than a thousand voiceovers. Also, he trained more than 20 trainees, 8 of whom are now independent anchors, and added many exclusive songs to radios’ repertories.

Moreover, he worked as a brand manager for LuxuryKSA, the operator of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA).

He was member of the jury panel of “Najm Al Mic” competition on Mix FM, and “Qalb Al Taif” contest for the best short film at Taif University.

Turning to sports, he presented the following events: Saudi Arabia vs Argentina football match, the retirement ceremony of player Abdallah Al-Shareida, the commemoration ceremony of player Mohammad al-Khalawi, the 2011 King Abdullah Cup final, and the inauguration of King Abdullah Sports City stadium, aka “the Shining Jewel.”

As to live coverages, his track record mainly includes the broadcast of the death of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the inauguration and allegiance ceremony of Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz and his death in 2012, in addition to the Saudi National Day festivities and Saudis’ celebration of the Emirati National Day on mbc.

He also released 7 singles between 2013 and 2018 viewed by millions:

“Milad al-Helo” 11M viewers

“Al-Haki Wayyak” 3.5M viewers

“Maatini Ashkel” 1.6M viewers

“Nakesni Inta” 6.5M viewers

“Awwal Ibtidaei” 376K viewers

“Kaza Albak” 14 K viewers

“Melki” 2.4M viewers

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Grini  

Singer

Abdel Fattah Grini took the chance of a lifetime in 2007, auditioning and winning the MBC talent show, Album. Singing in three languages English, Arabic and French, Grini was an instant hit and he learned quickly how to perform for large audiences both on the show and on tour across the region.

Grini earned a record deal with Platinum and released 3 award winning studio albums, YA KHSARTAJ FY ELLAYALY IN AUGUST 2008  AYESH HAYATOU IN JULY 2009  3 KELMAT IN JULY 2010 collectively selling thousands of copies and gaining millions of music video views on YouTube.

 In 2011, Grini won the award for Best Worldwide Act for the MENA region at the EMA’s and attended the show in Belfast on November 6th, 2011 to a televised audience of more than 1.2 billion people via MTV’s global network of more than 60 channels reaching more than 640 million households around the world.

Later that year, Grini was chosen as Man of the Year 2011 in Morocco by Aswat Radio who organizes the competition, voted by the fans amongst a list of VIPs, Celebrities, Artists and Politicians. Grini also hosted a couple of TV shows including Coke Studio.

He has received the royal Medal from the king Mohamed VI of Morocco in 2016 and he performed in the most important festivals across Arab world such as: Festival of Tolerance in Agadir, Timitar Festival, Marrakech du rire, Layali Febrayer Kuwait, Souq waqif Qatar. In 2016 and 2017, Grini ventured into the Arab Hindi genre with his 2 hits Jabra Fan (Yash Raj Music - 160 million views) and Zaalima featuring Jamila (Red Chillies Entertainment - 31 million views). He later won in 2017 the title of Best International Song for Jabra Fan from the 2016 movie Fan starring Shahrukh Khan.

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Tony Abou Jaoude

Actor/TV Presenter

TONY ABOU JAOUDEH is a multitalented Lebanese actor/presenter whose skills vary between stage acting, TV acting, standup comedy, imitating different personalities and singing as well.

He started off his career as a stage actor while he was still studying fine arts at the Lebanese academy of fine arts (ALBA) in1992.

His first play was with the famous Lebanese comedian Samy Khayat, after that he continued performing on stage in different comedy plays and standup comedy shows till present day. 

Plays such as : " Jnoona Park " (1992), " Mercy Kteer " (1994), "Tallatit" (1997), "Bala Dayn" (1998), "Shawez Madani" (1999), "L'an d'Emile" (2000) "Comedy Night" season 1 (2005), "Tabdeel or No Deal" ( 2007 ), " Nemna 3a Fou-rire " (2009), "Comedy Night" seasons 4, 5, 6 from 2012 to 2016 and recently "The Laugh Story" 1 and 2 from 2017 till now.

His career in TV began in 1996 when he joined the team of the famous Lebanese comedy show SLCHI on MTV from 1996 to 1998, then moved to LBCI to take part in a famous political satire show called "Mouni3a Fi Loubnan" from 1999 to 2002. In parallel to comedy shows and during that same period, he debuted his career in TV presenting also where he got the chance to present on LBCI one of the Arab world's most famous entertainment shows " Ya Leil Ya 3ein " from 1999 to 2002.

After that he joined MBC in 2003 to take part in the first Middle Eastern version of "Saturday Night Live" called "CBM" at the time, with various famous comedians from all over the Arab world. (2003 - 2006)

Also on MBC, he presented and performed in the famous format "Your Face Sounds Familiar "(Shaklak Mish Ghareeb) for one season only in 2014. 

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Arbitration conditions

A panel of eminent celebrities will give opinion on candidates and their performance. Their opinion is an integral part of the competition.

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Performance

Performance is crucial for candidates’ qualification to advanced stages in the competition. Each competitor must deliver an impressive and breathtaking performance of the song they have chosen.

 

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Voice

It goes without saying that a beautiful voice is an obvious requisite in this competition. As a matter of fact, the show is on the lookout for a unique and exquisite singing talent that knows well how to choose the song best fitting their voice, and performs it beautifully.

 

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Quality of video

It is common knowledge that videos help convey messages to the audience more effectively and smoothly. Therefore, the recorded video must be of high quality and resolution.

 

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An interactive audience

The jury takes into account the audience’s interaction with the videos. Therefore, candidates are asked to encourage their friends and followers to like their videos on social media and to vote more than once.

 

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