Etab عتاب | |
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Background information | |
Birth name |
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Born | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 30 December 1947
Died | 19 August 2007 Cairo, Egypt | (aged 59)
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]
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]
Etab عتاب | |
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Background information | |
Birth name |
|
Born | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 30 December 1947
Died | 19 August 2007 Cairo, Egypt | (aged 59)
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]
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]