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Her voice was one of the few female voices in Arab music world to pose serious competition to that of Umm Kulthum, [5] who is considered to be one of the Arab world's most distinguished singers of the 20th century. [6] Her mysterious death in an automobile accident shocked the public.
This is a list of Arabic pop-music musicians. Not all are Arabs , but all perform at least in part in the Arabic language . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Salim Halali (or Hilali; Arabic: سليم الهلالي; born Simon Halali; [1] 30 July 1920 – 25 June 2005) was an Algerian singer who performed Algerian music and Arabic Andalusian classical music. He was a pop singer rather than a professional performer of traditional Arab-Andalusian music, in which he had no formal training.
Arabic music (Arabic: الموسيقى العربية, romanized: al-mūsīqā l-ʿarabiyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres. Arabic countries have many rich and varied styles of music and also many linguistic dialects , with each country and region having their own traditional music .
Farid al-Atrash (Arabic: فريد الأطرش; October 19, 1910 – December 26, 1974), also spelled Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian singer, oudist, composer, and actor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Although born in Syria, he immigrated to Egypt at the age of nine with his mother and siblings, where he eventually became one of the most noted ...
At the age of 16, she was noticed by Mohamed Abo Al-Ela, a modestly famous singer, who taught her the old classical Arabic repertoire. A few years later, she met the famous composer and oudist Zakariyya Ahmad, who took her to Cairo. Although she made several visits to Cairo in the early 1920s, she waited until 1923 before permanently moving there.
Singers of Raï are called cheb (شاب) or cheba (شابة), i.e. young, as opposed to sheikh (شيخ, shaykh), i.e. old, the name given to Chaabi singers. The tradition arose in the city of Oran, primarily among the poor. Traditionally sung by men, by the end of the 20th century, female singers became common.
20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; 25th; Pages in category "20th-century Egyptian male singers" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This ...