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She was born on 10 December 1921 in Mosul, Iraq.
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Affifa Iskandar
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She was considered one of the best female singers in Iraqi history. She was nicknamed the "Iraqi Blackbird" (شحرورة العراق). Affifa Iskandar was born in Mosul to an Iraqi-Armenian father and a Greek mother.
She lived in Baghdad, and started singing at the age of 5.
At her first party in 1935, she sang First Rate (at Lloyd's) maqam. She also worked as an actress and appeared in many productions.
1938, she traveled to Egypt to work with Badia Masabni, Taheyya Kariokka, and Mohamed Abdel Wahab. She died of cancer on 21 October 2012 in Baghdad.
