Maher Zain is a Swedish and Muslim R&B singer, song writer and music producer. He was born in Lebanon, 16 July 1981. He was 8 years old, he moved to Sweden with his family. Then he graduated from Aeronautics and Engineering of Space, his music career started. He met a producer, Nadir Khayat. Maher moved to New York for his music career. Later he moved to Sweden again and he decided to sing religious R&B songs.


He started to work for Awaking Records in 2009 for his first album, "Thank You Allah". There are 15 songs in this album. It was released in 1 November 2009. Later, some songs were published in French. Maher Zain and Awaking Records popularized this album via Facebook, Youtube and iTunes etc.. Maher was the most searched famous person on Google in 2010 in Malaysia. At the same time he popularized his album very succesfully in Malaysia. Warner Music Malaysia gave him 8 paltinum discs for his album, "Thank You Allah" was a bestseller album in 2010. Sony Music Indonesia gave him double platinum discs in 2011 in Indonesia.


I started to listen Maher Zain's songs last year. He is a very succesful singer. M y favorite songs are "Awaken", "Hold My Hand", and "This Wordly Life". He used M.Fethullah Gülen's "Dünya" poem in "This Worldly Life" song. It is a great song. You must listen to it. Maher Zain is the number one for me among all singers.




He usually sings his songs in English but then he published his famous song in other languages, too. For example one of his songs, "Insha Allah" can be sung in English, Turkish, Arabic, French, Malay and Indonesian. And his other one song, "Allahi Allah Kiya Karo" (Echoing to Allah Everytime) can be sung in Urduca, Canadian singer Irfan Makki -He was born in Pakistan- featured in this song. And Maher featured Irfan Makki's  the first album, "I Believe", in a song, "I Believe". Maher's the last song, "Ramadan" in English, Arabic and Turkish now.



The biggest radio in Middle East, Nujoom FM gave the best psalm award to his song, "Ya Nabi Salam Alayka" in January 2010. He was more popular than other great singers, Sami Yusuf, Hussein Al-Jismi and Mohammad Mounir etc.. Maher Zain is a very good singer.    
             
                                                                                                              Mustafa KALFA