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Aline Lahoud (
Arabic:الين لحود), born
2 March 1981, is a
Lebanese singer, and the daughter of well-known singer Salwa Katrib. She was selected to sing for
Lebanon at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in
Kyiv, where the nation had been due to make its debut appearance in the competition. However, she was miss out following Lebanon's abrupt decision to withdraw.
Aline honed her natural talent by studying singing and dramatic art between
1997 and
1999. By
2002, she'd graduated from university with a
BA in Communication Arts, majoring in
Screenplay and
Directing Studies. In recent years, she's supplemented her burgeoning singing career by acting in plays, directing short films, and in
2003 moved on to work as assistant director on a full length film,
Mes Cousines et Moi.
At a time when the idea of Lebanon finally taking up its right to enter the
Eurovision Song Contest was being seriously floated, Aline left herself ideally placed to be one of the beneficiaries by winning the international prize at the Megahit festival in
Turkey, in collaboration with prolific song-writer Jad Rahbani. The Lebanese selectors quickly looked to the same combination to conjure up some of the same magic on the Eurovision stage in Kyiv.
Reflecting Lebanon's long-standing place in the international
francophone orbit, the lyrics of the country's proposed first Eurovision entry were in
French, a language in which Aline is fluent. The song was entitled "Quand tout s'enfuit", and as a debut entry would have begun its quest for victory in the semi-final on
19 May, from which only ten entries will progress to join the pre-qualified countries in the grand final on
21 May. The late decision to withdraw was taken after the Lebanese broadcasters conceded to the
European Broadcasting Union that they couldn't guarantee they'd uphold the fairness of the event by transmitting it without selective interruption, an implicit reference to the requirement of screening the performance of
Shiri Maymon, the representative of
Israel.
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