Etab
Etab عتاب | |
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| Background information | |
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| Born | 30 December 1947 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Died | 19 August 2007 (aged 59) Cairo, Egypt |
| Occupation(s) | singer, actress |
| Years active | 1960s–1990s |
Tarouf Abdulkhair Adam Talal (Arabic: طروف عبد الخير آدم طلال, 30 December 1947 – 19 August 2007), stage name Etab (Arabic: عتاب, romanized: ʻitāb), was a Saudi Arabian singer active from the 1960s to the 1990s.[1]
Life
Etab was born on 30 December 1947 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 19 August 2007.[1]
She was a member of the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate and of the Union of Arab Artists.[3] On 30 December 2017 – which would have been her seventieth birthday – she was the subject of a Google Doodle.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Ali Hawash (21 August 2007). First Female Saudi Singer Etab Dies at 69. Arab News. Archived 6 February 2017.
- ^ a b c [s.n.] (30 December 2017). Google Doodle celebrates Saudi singer Etab. Al Arabiya. Accessed January 2018.
- ^ [staff] (30 December 2017). Profile: Etab, Saudi Arabia’s first female singer. Egypt Today. Archived 14 February 2023.
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