Her mother was the Alexandrian singer Saliha Al-Masryia, while her father was the Halabi artist Faraj Awad, an oud player from the Jews of Aleppo, and head of the musical band of Munira Al-Mahdiyya.
Her father opposed the matter, and she ran away with Mohamed Abdo Saleh, the qanun player in Umm Kulthum's band, who promised to make her an artistic star.
[3] She married the Lebanese poet Abdul Jalil Wahbi and benefited from him and communicated with the artistic community in Lebanon.
She gave birth to three children during the marriage: the pianist Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Randa, and Rima, who is considered one of the prominent names in composing and distributing music in Lebanon and the Arab world.
Wedad died on February 20 2009, at the age of 78 after suffering from kidney disease, as she used to go to dialysis centers daily.