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8. Ghaliaa Chaker

Nationality: Syrian
Vertical: Music
Age: 26
Number of followers: 461,000

Chaker is a singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. She began her career at 16 by composing, writing lyrics, and singing in Arabic, English, French, Turkish, Armenian, and Spanish. She performed in Beirut with Aziz Maraka in February 2024. In August 2024, Chaker participated in the Benghazi Summer Festival in Libya. In September 2024, she performed at the El Sawy Culture Wheel in Egypt. Chaker posts snippets from her music, her personal life, and collaborations with other artists on Instagram. As of November 2024, she had garnered over 31.3 million plays on Anghami, over 277,300 monthly listeners on Spotify, and more than 82.9 million views on YouTube.