Samira Said (Arabic: سميرة سعيد‎, born Samira Abdul Razzaq Bensaïd (سميرة عبد الرزاق بن سعيد) on 10 January 1958) is a Moroccan-Egyptian pop singer.

Samira Said was born in 1958 in Rabat, Morocco, to a father from Rabat and a mother from Fez. She sang her first original song "I love noodles" at the age of nine, and was discovered on the music program, Mawaheb, broadcast on Moroccan TV, she then moved to Egypt where her fame around the Arab world began. She has dual nationality of Morocco and Egypt; her resident home as she moved to Cairo in 1977. She has all her albums in the Egyptian dialect of Arabic but she also recorded some songs in the Moroccan dialect of Arabic, such as: "Kifash Tlakina" ("How we Met"), "Fayetli sheftek shi marra" ("I've seen you once"), "Sarkouh" ("They Stole Him"), and "Al Behhara" ("Mariners"). Her singles included "Maghlouba" ("Beaten") and "Wa'ady" ("My Love"). In 1980 she represented her native Morocco in the Eurovision Song Contest singing a hit song within Egypt at that time called Bitaqat Hub, placing 18th out of the 19 contestants.

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