Studio El Fan (Arabic: ستوديو الفن, "The Art Studio") was one of the Arab world's first star-maker talent shows in Lebanon, created by the famous television director and producer Simon Asmar, and Alfred Barakat.
[1] The program helped launch the careers of many famous Lebanese stars[2][3] like Majida El Roumi, Ragheb Alama, Walid Toufic, Wael Kfoury and Assi El Hellani.
The show ran every four years for an entire year, and contestants from all over Lebanon competed in different singing categories for the gold, silver or bronze medal awards.
Artists were not allowed to perform elsewhere than on LBCI, so they were called upon to perform in Nahr el-Founoun (meaning the arts rivers), an artistic complex in Nahr el-Kalb that was owned by Asmar.
[1] The show hosted many of today's Lebanese and Arab stars, such as: