Etab

  • Etab
  • عتاب
Background information
Born
  • Arabic: طروف عبد الخير آدم طلال
  • tarūf ʻabdul-ḵair ṭallāl

(1947-12-30)30 December 1947
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Died19 August 2007(2007-08-19) (aged 59)
Cairo, Egypt
Occupationssinger, actress
Years active1960s–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

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

Notes

  1. ^ a b Contemporary reports of her death state that she was 66 years old at the time[1][3], implying that she was born in about 1941.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Ali Hawash (21 August 2007). First Female Saudi Singer Etab Dies at 66. Arab News. Archived 6 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b c [s.n.] (30 December 2017). Google Doodle celebrates Saudi singer Etab. Al Arabiya. Accessed January 2018.
  3. ^ a b [s.n.] (21 August 2007). وفاة الفنانة "عتاب"رائدة الفنانات الخليجيات (in Arabic). Radio Sawa. Archived 30 December 2017.
  4. ^ [staff] (30 December 2017). Profile: Etab, Saudi Arabia’s first female singer. Egypt Today. Archived 14 February 2023.

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