Myriam Fares

Birthday	May 3, 1983
Age	43 Years (November, 2026)
Birth Place	Kfar Chellal, South Governorate, Lebanon
Education	Lebanese National Conservatory (oriental singing)
Ethnicity	Lebanese
Relationship Status	Married to Danny Mitri (since 2014)

Biography

Myriam Fares is a Lebanese singer, actress and entertainer, born on 3 May 1983 in Kfar Chellal, a village in southern Lebanon. She is known across the Arab world as the "Queen of the Stage" for performances built around her own choreography.

Fares released her first single, "Ana Wel Shoq", and her self-titled debut album in 2003. In 2021 she became the first Arab artist with a Netflix documentary, Myriam Fares: The Journey, which reached number one in several countries. Her 2018 song "Goumi" went viral on TikTok through a dance challenge that passed 10 billion views, and in 2022 she recorded the official FIFA World Cup song "Tukoh Taka" with Nicki Minaj and Maluma.

Early Life

Fares started classical ballet at five, and at nine she appeared on the TV programme Al Mawaheb Al Saghira, winning first prize in oriental dance from Lebanese public television. At 15 she enrolled at the Lebanese National Conservatory, where she spent four years studying oriental singing.

At 16 she placed first at the Festival of the Lebanese Song, and at 17 she won the Lebanese song category on the talent show Studio El Fan. She then signed with Music Master Records.

Career

Her debut album Myriam (2003) produced several hits, including "La Tes'alni", which spent two months on the charts. Nadini followed in 2005, sung in both Lebanese and Egyptian dialects, with videos for "Nadini", "Haklik Rahtak" and "Waheshny Eah". Later albums include Bet'oul Eih (2008), Min Oyouni (2011) and Aman (2015), which set a record as the most played album on the streaming service Anghami.

She starred in the film Silina (2009), hosted the TV programme Fawazeer Myriam Fares (2010) and made her drama debut in the series Itiham (2014). "Goumi" (2018) spread worldwide after a dance challenge she launched on Instagram. Her Netflix documentary Myriam Fares: The Journey (2021) followed her personal and professional life, including pregnancy and studio work, and stayed in Netflix's regional top 10 for about two months.

For "Tukoh Taka", the 2022 FIFA World Cup song, Fares worked on the arrangement, wrote the Arabic section and choreographed the video. She married Lebanese-American businessman Danny Mitri in Cyprus in August 2014, and they have two sons, born in 2016 and 2020.