Dalida has been played on NTS in shows including Algorythms w/ Nelly Chevaillier, featured first on 13 March 2017. Songs played include Bang Bang (Italie), Helwa Ya Balady and Pars.

"Dalida" was a pseudonym of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (1933-1987), also known as يولاندا كريستينا جيجليوتي and, following French naturalisation, Yolanda Gigliotti, was a singer of Italian origin, who made her career in France. She received fifty-five gold records, and was the first female singer to get a diamond disc.

Born on the 17th January 1933 in Shoubra, Cairo, Egypt, she was the child of an opera violinist, and was given singing lessons at an…