Sabah – Jeanette Georges Feghali aka Sabah
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Sabah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabah_(singer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzjCMa-wMto
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Sabah is a Jewel Vendor and Crafter in the markets of Selenopolis. She offers recipes for Level 170+ Jewels and Pins. Her recipes don’t require Crafting, instead, Wizards spend Reagents to obtain the Jewels and Pins from her directly.
Sabah, (lit. ’morning’) born Jeanette Georges Feghali, (November 10, 1027 – November 26, 2014) was a Lebanese singer and actress. She specialized in the Mawwāl, a popular genre of traditional music in the Arabsphere, and performed in many Egyptian films and songs.
Over the course of her career, she earned many nicknames; the most popular being ‘Al-Shahrura’ (lit. ’the songbird’), in reference to her strong and rhythmic voice.
Sabah began singing at a young age and released her first song in Lebanon in 1940 at the age of 13. In the early 1940s, she was invited to Egypt by actress and producer Assia Dagher. Sabah acted alongside Dagher in her first movie, El-Qalb Luh Wahid (The Heart Has Its Reasons), released in 1945, which brought her regional fame. She then became widely known by her character’s name, Sabah, which means “morning” in Arabic.
Sabah was active in Egyptian cinema and resided in Egypt for two decades. Among her most popular films were The Night is Ours (1949), My Father Deceived Me (1951), That’s What Love Is (1961), Soft Hands (1963), Three Women (1968), Paris and Love (1972), and The Second Man (1959), where she played a cabaret singer seeking to avenge her brother’s death at the hands of a smuggling ring.
Throughout her music career, Sabah recorded over 3,000 songs, collaborating with numerous renowned Egyptian composers, including the late Mohammed Abdel Wahab. She specialized in the Lebanese folk tradition known as mawwāl, and among her most famous songs were “Zay el-Assal” (“Your Love is Like Honey on my Heart”) and “Akhadou el-Reeh” (“They Took the Wind”). Sabah released more than 50 albums and appeared in 98 films.
Until 2009, Sabah performed in concerts and on television, including appearances on programs like Star Academy. She collaborated closely with singer Rola Saad in remaking some of her previous hits, such as “Yana Yana”. The accompanying video, which pays tribute to Sabah as “the notorious diva”, received significant airplay on Arabic music channels. Additionally, Sabah hosted the TV show Akher Man Yalam on 31 May 2010.
In 2010, Sabah retired from public life for health reasons.
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