Nelly Makdessy (Arabic: نيللي مقدسي [ˈnel.li ˈmaʔdesi]; born October 10, 1979) is a Lebanese actress, singer, songwriter, record producer, instrumentalist and model.
Nelly started her career in the amateurs TV program "Kaass El Noujoum" which was broadcast on the Lebanese channel LBC in early 1990s, she sang in the category of Folklore Music.
She started her musical career in the amateurs TV program "Kaass El Noujoum" presented on the popular entertainment channel Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (aka LBC), where she won the first place, and got three golden cups.
On October 21, 2000 after one year and half of hard work, Nelly Makdessy released her debut album, Shouf El Ein.
The songs "Machie Al Maghror", and the title track "Shouf El Ein" were released almost simultaneously and all became major hits.
In 2002, before coming to fame again and releasing a new album, a fake scandal of Nelly Makdessy was published as a message on a Yahoo!
Rotana explained the reason to the national press that Nelly was not selling a good number of copies and that she was causing the company a loss.
It was followed by her single "Ya Nar Nari", a Khaliji song which was released in late July 2008 and was directed by Leila Kanaan.
[7][8][9][10][11] In September 2017, Nelly Makdessy released a new single and Music video, entitled 'Kunt Atmanna', directed by Randa Alam.
[12] In July 2023, Nelly released a new single and music video entitled "El Helo Tall" and it was a well-received summer hit.