# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/naima-samih
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:42:42.243Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/naima-samih"
name: "Naima Samih"
slug: "naima-samih"
description: "Naima Samih was a Moroccan singer. She is considered one of the most important voices in Moroccan music in the second half of the twentieth century. Her singing career began in the 1970s, and her songs gained wide popularity in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and other Arab countries. She was even dubbed “The Lady of Tarab” and became the third and youngest Arab singer to perform at Olympia, after Umm Kulthum and Fairuz."
tagline: "Moroccan musical artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Naima_Samih.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1953"
deathDate: "2025-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.163573333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xsHU2TqmsFgythM1BdVof"
    handle:    "0xsHU2TqmsFgythM1BdVof"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4903978"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AD"
    title: "نعيمة سميح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AD"
    title: "نعيمة سميح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naima_Samih"
    title: "Naima Samih"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naima_Samih"
    title: "Naima Samih"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%85%DB%81_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AD"
    title: "نعيمہ سميح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naime_Semih"
    title: "Naime Semih"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B9%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%81_%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AD"
    title: "نعیمہ سمیح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zgh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%B5%8F%E2%B4%B0%E2%B5%84%E2%B5%89%E2%B5%8E%E2%B4%B0_%E2%B5%99%E2%B4%B0%E2%B5%8E%E2%B5%89%E2%B5%83"
    title: "ⵏⴰⵄⵉⵎⴰ ⵙⴰⵎⵉⵃ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/be117f05-9cba-4811-8547-4eaff4be6863"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6959660"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump