Her father was the stage writer, theater director and critic Saleh Saad, with whom she worked as an actress and directing assistant at a young age.

[1] Around 2008, she founded her band Jawaz Safar, in which only the instruments oud and tabl were played.

[1] In 2008 she founded the band Baraka,[2] the ua the Sheikh Imam songs Nixon Baba, Valery Giscard d'Estaing Ya Wad Ya Yu Yu, ya wādd yā yū yū and Ya wādd yā yū yū El-Bahr Byidhak Leh "('Why does the sea laugh') covered[1] and later sung by her sister Nagham Saleh.

[3] Since 2010 she works together with the Lebanese musician Zeid Hamdan; the music was described as Arab trip-hop.

[4] Maryam Saleh starred as the prostitute Mona Farkha in the 2011 Egyptian short film A Tin Tale (Arabic: حدوتة من صاج, Hadouta Men Sag ; Director: Aida El-Kashef) as part of the Dubai International Film Festival.