Her talent for singing was revealed early, when she attracted attention of her parents at age 5, repeating songs of Umm Kulthum and Mohammed Abdel Wahab.
Further success came when the prominent Egyptian composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab heard her singing and gave her a role in his film Yahia el Hob (Viva Love!) in 1938.
At the height of Pan-Arabism, Gamal Abdel Nasser requested that Warda be given a part in a production by Mohammed Abdel Wahab titled My Great Homeland (Watani Al-Akbar).
Gamal Abdel Nasser | Mohammed VI of Morocco | Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum | Ali Mohammed Ghedi | Mohammed Burhanuddin | Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah | Khalid Sheikh Mohammed | Mohammed Khalid | Mohammed Hayef AlŲMutairi | Mohammed Hussein Ali | Omar Abdel-Rahman | Murtala Mohammed | Mohammed Fairouz | Mohammed Omar | Mohammed Abdel Wahab | Mohammed | Karim Abdel Aziz | Haidar Abdel-Shafi | DJ Abdel | Abdel Halim Hafez | Nick Mohammed | Mohammed Uthman al-Mirghani al-Khatim | Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi | Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan | Mohammed Ben Aarafa | Mohammed Aziz | Mohammed Atef | Mohammed ash-Sheikh | Mohammed Abdullah Hassan | Mohammed Abacha |
With these songs and many others, he is recognized by most of his fellow musicians, including Umm Kulthum, Zakariyya Ahmad, and Mohammed Abdel Wahab, as being the master of the new music spirit.