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She performed for Layla Murad and Asmahan and won the gold medal for oriental singing. Her success prompted her father to change his mind and give her his blessings to pursue singing as long as she continued her higher education. The song, released at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in April , was very popular. After releasing her first album Wadaa Farewell in , Majida got the attention of Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine.

She married Antoine Dafone, and after years of marriage she separated from him, and publicly announced her divorce in , following rumors about his relationship with a young singer.

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She and Dafone have two daughters together, Hala and Noor. When she performed at Hunter College in May accompanied by a piece orchestra, music reviewer Peter Watrous said: "she wandered between near-European pop and Middle Eastern pop". El Roumi chose this text after the UN ceremony in , when she was named Goodwill Ambassador, and declared it to be the theme message for her mission of peace around the world.

In , Majida's sister Maha had to be transported to the US for better medical care, as she was suffering from cancer. The single's proceeds were donated to various charitable initiatives with arts and culture programs aiming to raise funds for education projects in the Arab World. She said that the producer, Quincy Jones, did not meet her conditions and the team supervising and overlooking the project was not professional.

Majida already put her voice on the operate, but when they asked her to record again in Qatar, she announced her withdrawal and waived her authorship rights when she backed out of the project.

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Majida released her new album "Ghazal" on 22 June having worked on it for 6 years with many composers and poets. Arabic lyrics are taken from Cadmus , Said Akl 's theater play and French lyrics are freely inspired from the same theater play by Lebanese novelist Alexandre Najjar. This song describes Lebanon "the peace" , "the beauty" , "the creativity" and encourages fraternity, unity between people worldwide and calls for loving each other by surpassing all human differences.