Fady Maalouf

Fady Maalouf (Arabic: فادي معلوف‎) (born Fady Mounir on April 20, 1979 in Zahlé, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-German pop singer. He is known as runner up of the fifth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol. Maalouf was born to a Lebanese family and his father had German roots. He started very early age to show interest for music and singing. He sang in a church children's choir and took some piano lessons, which was his first developing musical activity. Later on he received professional voice training with a vocal coach. This kind of vocal training allowed him to develop a multi-octave powerful belting voice, which he started to show at the age of 17 by forming his own 4-member music band and performing as...