Similar to so many artists of her times, she practiced her musical skills at family events, where she devoted herself to singing and the darbuka.

Sometime after World War I, she joined El Moutribia, the orchestra and theater troupe of her famous cousin Yafil.

Over the next fifteen years, she sustained a busy career with El Moutribia, acting and touring alongside her comic partner Rachid Ksentini.

Soussan, of course, was also a talented solo artist, recording an array of genres, classical and popular, first with Gramophone and then with Polyphon.

All of this earned her early membership in the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM).