Etab
Etab عتاب | |
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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 nameEtab(Arabic:عتاب,romanized:ʻitāb), was a Saudi Arabian singer active from the 1960s to the 1990s.[1]
Life
[edit]Etab was born on 30 December 1947 inRiyadh,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 theʻoudplayer 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 theUnion of Arab Artists.[3]On 30 December 2017 – which would have been her seventieth birthday – she was the subject of aGoogle Doodle.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abcdAli Hawash (21 August 2007).First Female Saudi Singer Etab Dies at 69.Arab News.Archived 6 February 2017.
- ^abc[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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