Nagat started singing at the age of five, when she sang a song called "Ghanni ya Karawan", a famous Umm Kulthoum song, at the Oriental Music Hall in Cairo. She is called Al Saghira (the young) to differentiate her from Nagat Ali, another famous singer at the time. Nagat's real name is Nagat Mohammad Mahmoud. She is an Egyptian singer who was born in Cairo, Egypt. Her father was Mohammad Hosni Effendi, a calligrapher, who played the Oud very well.