Music like Asala

Assala Mostafa Hatem Nasri (Arabic: أصالة مصطفى حاتم نصري‎; born 15 May 1969), commonly known as Assala Nasri (Arabic: أصالة نصري‎) and by the mononym Assala (Arabic: أصالة‎), is a Syrian musical artist.

Assala was born in Damascus, Syria to a middle class couple. Mostafa Nasri, Assala's father, was a revered composer and singer. Assala began her musical career by performing patriotic, religious, and children's songs when she was four years old. She sang the theme song "Qessas Al Sho'oub" (قصص الشعوب), of the cartoon show, Hekayat Alamiyah (حكايات عالمية). In 1984, Mostafa Nasri died after suffering from internal bleeding caused by a car accident. Aged 15 she helped to take care of her siblings Aman, Ayham, Reem and Anas with her mother Aziza Al-Babelli.