Layla Iskandar was born in Beirut on August 23, 1984. She has studied advertising and marketing at the Lebanese University and got a degree in acting and theater directing. Her first step in the musical world was at the age of sixteen when she got the gold medal in the category of « Tarab » song in the program « Studio El Fan ». In 2004, Layla participated in the program Star Academy in its first season in the Middle East. In the following year, she starred as a singer and actress in the theater piece « Insan » and participated in a duet entitled « Lebanon » with the Kuwaiti artist Nabeel Shuail. Layla was chosen by the United Nations to support the campaign for immunodeficiency virus. In 2007, she released a video clip for the khaliji song « Assalifa wa ma fiha » which allowed her to gain the title of « best artist to sing Khaliji »...