Naima Samih

Naima Samih (Arabic: نعيمة سميح, born 1953 in Derb Sultan, Casablanca, Morocco) is a Moroccan artist.

[1] Born in a Saharawi family of thirteen children in Casablanca, Naima Samih started singing at the age of nine.

She stopped school at an early age and worked with a seamstress to help her family, but gave up to take a chance for music.

She became a star in the 1970s with the release of her song "Jrit Ou Jarit" also known as "Yaka Jarhi".

Unlike her fellow singers from Mawahib, she stayed in Morocco to pursue her career and not to go to Egypt, that was welcoming voices from across the Arab world to work with its leading composers and writers.