| Born | November 1, 1921 Niha, Lebanon |
| Died | October 11, 2013 (aged 91) Mansourieh, Lebanon |
He was a Lebanese icon and the ancestor of the country and of musical culture. He was the longest singer in production, seventy-five years in the making a song profession. Furthermore, he was the lead singer of his generation. He changed into recognized among his friends to have incarnated and raised the ceiling of all the making a song patterns and track of that generation and introduced his very own difficult new patterns and genres to the present countrywide musical and making a song heritage. It is the bond with each new singer and the need to be respected for generations to come. Born in Niha, Lebanon, Wadih El Safi commenced his inventive adventure on the age of 16 whilst he took element in a making a song contest held with the aid of using Lebanese Radio and changed into selected the winner of all classes among forty different competitors. On October 11, 2013, he fell ill at his son’s home and was admitted to Bellevue Medical Center, where he died. His funeral was held in the Saint-Georges Maronite Cathedral in Beirut on October 14, 2013.
