Grace Deeb

Grace Deeb (; born May 29, 1975 in Beirut) is a Lebanese singer. She was born into a family of musicians and began her career at the age of four. She sings in multiple languages.

Biography

Grace formed an English-singing band when she was at school, named "Strangers". After that she released a few singles and performed at weddings and piano bars. She first appeared on TV in the well-known duet W In Kan Alayya ("If It Was For Me") in 2003 with the Arab singer Assi El Helani. After that, Grace collaborated with Jean-Jacques Goldman who named Grace as "Dalida of the Arabs" in the song that changed records and made her famous locally and internationally; Comme Toi and then Calling You, the former in French and Arabic and the latter in English and Arabic.

Immediately after that, Grace signed a 5-year contract with the most famous production company in the Arab world, "Rotana Records". She worked with Anoud Maaliki during her time with Rotana Records. Her first album was released on 23 August 2004 entitled Ghannali El-Alam Kello ("The Whole World Sang To Me"). It enjoyed great success and only 20 days after its release, Grace was asked to go to Frankfurt to represent the Arab world along with the Egyptian singer Amr Diab in the Frankfurt Book Fair and sang 3 songs from the album; Ghannali, Wallah Bitmoun and Heya which inspired the audience and created a good buzz which made the organizers release a CD of all participants in the book fair including the 3 songs that Grace sang.

In 2005, Grace released a cover of the song Helwa Ya Balady by the late Dalida and reached number one spots on the charts.

The second album to be released was Ghinniyat Grace Deeb ... Aktar Min Gharam ("Grace Deeb's Songs ... More Than Love") on 28 February 2006 and received great feedback all over the Arab world. In 2006, Grace was named "Ambassador" of Kibarouna Association which takes care of elderly people. The third album on the way was Ma Bteshbah Hada ("You Don't Look Like Anyone Else") on 11 June 2008. This album was called the best-selling album by Grace Deeb. In 2009, Grace was named "Ambassador" of Anhar Al-Mahabba Foundation which takes care of people suffering from AIDS (HIV).

Grace works now on many humanitarian issues, mentioning: associations that take care of elderly people, abortion, AIDS (HIV) and breast cancer.

Grace finished a demo CD containing 8 songs in 8 languages to use in her concerts around the world but not to be released in stores, and with the end of 2009, Grace surprised everyone with her decision of leaving her production company Rotana and now she is working on her own.

Grace's recent work is a Christian CD called "Grace Deeb Singing From The Tent Of Praise" which included You Raise Me Up which is a re-make of Josh Groban's song. She also recorded many other private singles for her, to name a few: Love Story, Je Suis Malade, That's The Way It Is, Perhaps, Magapy, Maria, Ya Habiby Ta'ala Elha'ni, Akher Eyyam El-Sayfiyeh and many others including a re-make of 3 songs from her 1st album but in different languages; "Chantons L'amour En Guitare" (Ghannali previously) - French, Arabic and English -, Hard On Me (Hiya previously) - English and Arabic -, Believe The Story (Mabrouk Aleiky previously) - English and Arabic -.

Discography

• Ghannali El-Alam Kello (2004)
• Ghinniyat Grace Deeb ... Aktar Min Gharam (2006)
• Ma Bteshbah Hada (2008)
• Singles (Various Years):
• I Like Your Style
• It's Really Hard
• I Need A Hero
• Praise
• My Daily Bread
• Ma A'zamak
• Play Don't Stop
• Helwa Ya Balady
• You Raise Me Up
• Chantons L'amour En Guitare
• Hard On Me (Hiya)
• Ghanni

Videography

• W In Kan Alayya (Ft. Assi El-Hillany) - 2003
• Calling You - 2004
• Comme Toi - 2004
• Ghannali - 2004
• Ana Habayt - 2004
• Wallah Bitmoun - 2005
• Aktar Min Gharam - 2006
• Ghinniyat - 2007
• O'zoriny - 2008
• Gelly Keef - 2009
• Bo'dak Anny - 2009
• Einy Fi Eino - 2009
• Ma Bteshbah Hada - 2010
• Ghanni - 2011

External links

• Official Site Archived 2017-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Official Yahoo Group
• Official Forum

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