According to Wikipedia Murkus was
born and raised in the Arab
town of Kafr Yasif
in Galilee, and has devoted
her career to promoting Palestinian
music and culture
in Israel and abroad. Murkus has been performing since she was five years old.
In 1979, she won first prize in the Israeli Arab children's song festival, and
went on to graduate from the Institute for Stage Art in Tel Aviv in 1990.
