Etab
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| Background information | |
| Born |
30 December 1947 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Died | 19 August 2007 (aged 59) Cairo, Egypt |
| Occupations | singer, actress |
| Years active | 1960s–1990s |
Tarouf Abdulkhair Adam Talal (Arabic: طروف عبد الخير آدم طلال, 30 December 1947[a] – 19 August 2007), stage name Etab (Arabic: عتاب, romanized: ʻitāb), was a Saudi Arabian singer. She was active from the 1960s to the 1990s.[1]
Life
[edit]Etab was born on the 30 December 1947[a] in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.[2] She moved to Egypt soon after her marriage to an Egyptian man in 1978. In 1983 she became an Egyptian citizen.[1]
She started singing in the 1960s, and performed at weddings with Sarah Osman and the ʻoud player Hayat Saleh.[2] She recorded more than fifteen albums and appeared in three films.[1] She became ill with cancer in 1997, and died in Cairo on the 19 August 2007.[1][3]
She was a member of the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate and of the Union of Arab Artists.[4] On the 30 December 2017, which would have been her seventieth birthday, she was the subject of a Google Doodle.[2]
See also
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[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Ali Hawash (21 August 2007). First Female Saudi Singer Etab Dies at 66. Arab News. Archived 6 February 2017.
- 1 2 3 [s.n.] (30 December 2017). Google Doodle celebrates Saudi singer Etab. Al Arabiya. Accessed January 2018.
- ↑ [s.n.] (21 August 2007). وفاة الفنانة "عتاب"رائدة الفنانات الخليجيات (in Arabic). Radio Sawa. Archived 30 December 2017.
- ↑ [staff] (30 December 2017). Profile: Etab, Saudi Arabia’s first female singer. Egypt Today. Archived 14 February 2023.
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