Biography: Saad Abdallah, born in Basra in 1944, gained fame in the mid-1970s. One of her most famous songs is "Ana Al-Masekina." In addition to being a singer, she is an actress who participated in numerous TV series and films in the 1970s and 1980s. She was married to the artist Hussein Nama, but they separated. Later, she married the artist Riad Ahmed, from whom she also separated. She had a son and a daughter from her second marriage. She passed away after a battle with cancer on Sunday, March 23, 2014, in Baghdad.