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Rasha Rizk

opera singer, cartoon dubbing

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ12213363
Source-derived summary

Rasha Rizk (Arabic: رشا رزق; born 5 March 1976) is a Syrian singer-songwriter. She is best known for her work with the Syrian cartoon dubbing company, Venus Centre, and for singing the Arabic theme songs for popular cartoons/anime such as: Remi, Nobody's Girl, Detective Conan, Gundam Wing and the Digimon series.

In October 2017, Rizk announced on Instagram and Facebook that she had received a primary Grammy nomination in two different categories, Best New Artist and Best World Music Album for her album Malak. She has been dubbed as the "Golden Throat" by fans and journalists alike.

Early life

Rizk started her formal vocal training at the age of 9, and by the age of 12, she won a children's talent competition. She studied French literature at Sorbonne University in Paris. Further, she graduated from the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus and taught opera singing there.

Career

On 12 October 2003, Rizk participated in the first opera in Arabic, Ibn Sina by the Dutch composer Michiel Borstlap, in Doha, Qatar. In 2000, she and the composer Ibrahim Sulaimani started the Syrian Jazz Band Itar Shame3 (Arabic: إطار شمع).

In 2008, she worked with French new-age band Era on their songs Prayers and Reborn.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rasha Rizk” is opera singer, cartoon dubbing. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rasha, Rizk and opera, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 2017, 2003, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Rasha, Rizk and opera is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “opera singer, cartoon dubbing” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12213363. The first chronological checks are 1976, 2017, 2003 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from Rasha Rizk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.