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Zaki Nassif زكي ناصيف
Born	(1918-07-04)4 July 1918[citation needed] Bouchrieh, Lebanon
Died	10 March 2004(2004-03-10) (aged 85) Beirut, Lebanon
Genres	Lebanese music
Occupation(s)	Singer, composer
Years active	1926–2000

Musical artist

Zaki Nassif (Arabic: زكي ناصيف; 4 July 1918 – 10 March 2004) was a Lebanese music composer and singer.

He was influential among the first generation of composers for the mass audience for music on radio in Lebanon in the 1940s and 1950s, and continued to be a force in Lebanese music until his death in 2004.

Biography

Born in Machghara, the largest town in the western Beqaa Valley in 1918^{[citation needed]} and was involved in music and country folk poetry (zagal, maannaa, 'ataba, mijana, abu el zuluf, etc.) at an early age.

He was one of the Big Five who contributed material to Radio Orient and Radio Liban in the 1950s (alongside Halim El Roumi and Philemon Wehbe among