Samira Said was born in January 10, 1961, she is an Arabic singer.

She was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco to a Muslim family. Samira lives in Cairo, Egypt with husband Mustapha Ennaboulssi and her son Shady. Samira Said was born and raised in Rabat the capital of Morocco- a pure R'bati of origin (descendants of Al Andalus who immigrated to Morocco after the fall of Gorboda) in 1961.

She began singing at a very early age, somewhat in her 9th year and started to be aired on Royal Moroccan TV in her 12th-13th year. Soon, she was noted to be a young prodigy. She began singing professionally encouraged by her family and backed up by authority figures in the Moroccan music composition scene, Al Rashdi and others. Her first appearance on television was on the Moroccan talent show "Mawaheb" alongside equally talented yet retired singer Aziza Jalal.

In a short time, Samira Said became one of the leading names in her home country recording many popular Arab songs such as "Kifash Tlakina" (how we met), "Fayetli sheftek shi marra" (I've seen you once) and "Sarkouh" (they stole him) and "al behhara" (mariners). Her best known works at this time included "Maghlouba" (beaten) and "Wa'ady" (my love).

Throughout, Samira was very loved by her Moroccan compatriots and was one of the pillar singers in the Kingdom (Abdluhaab Doukkali, Abdelhadi Belkhayat, Naima Samih- her main competitor at the time who was extremely popular in Morocco and outside Morocco- and Aziza Jalaal). Being ambitious by nature, Samira decided represent the Kingdom of Morocco in Eurovision singing her famous song 'ahna atfal kul edunya', a song that was a messenger of peace in the midst of Arab-Israeli tensions in their heydays. But this song, despite Samira's exceptional gift, beauty and talent was marked down by the jury who at the time was very anti-Arab biased.

Morocco decided never to participate again following this negative experience. But Samira's song, was famous all over Morocco. I was the first light song ever sung in the Moroccan dialect. Loved at home and thriving in the Moroccan music scene, Samira, thanks to her ambitious and tenacious personality decided to make of her past failure a constructive experience. Being already an authority in the Moroccan song scene and with good personal savings, Samira Bensaid traveled to Egypt, the epicentre of art and Arab songs in the pre-oil era (where the centre of singing is switching to the Gulf where Lebanese singers thrive).

There, she started another chapter of her singing and artistic career. Thanks to her charisma and strong personality, Samira could connect with the world Arab singer Abdul Halim Hafez and Abdul Wahhab, to finally meet Baligh Hamdi. Her financial status also made her transition to Egypt a smooth one and she could chose the right composers for her songs. But her transition to Egypt was welcomed with some unease in Moroccan public. Her total switch to speaking Egyptian dialect hurt the feelings of her Moroccan admirers who truly loved her. It was also caused by the fact that Samira totally severed her ties with Moroccan melodies.

She stayed a regular visitor to Moroccan music festivals and sung fully in Egyptian and that alienated her admiring Moroccan public.