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This song is notable as the only emotional song that Umm Kulthum sang in the year of 1967, a year marked by the defeat of the Arab armies in the Six-Day War, which halted the release of new music. Despite the challenges of the time, "Fat El Ma'ad" became one of the poignant songs that Umm Kulthum performed during her tour of Arab countries in ...
Umm Kulthum [a] (Arabic: أم كلثوم; 4 May 1904 [3] [4] – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title Kawkab el-Sharq (Arabic: كوكب الشرق, lit.
Once, when her brother Farid received one of Egypt's most famous composers, Dawood Hosni, in their home, the latter overheard her singing in her room, and insisted on seeing her immediately. He then asked her to sing again. He was much impressed by the performance, and suggested the stage name of Asmahan to her. Amal began using that name.
Egyptian musicians from Upper Egypt play a form of folk music called Ṣa‘īdi which originates from Upper Egypt. Metqal Qenawi's Les Musiciens du Nil (Musicians of the Nile; who became known to Alain Weber in 1975), are the most popular Sa‘īdi group, and were chosen by the government to represent Egyptian folk music abroad. They spent ...
Abdel Halim Ali Shabana (Egyptian Arabic: عبد الحليم على شبانه), commonly known as Abdel Halim Hafez (Egyptian Arabic: عبد الحليم حافظ, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ʕæbd el ħæliːm ħɑːfɪzˤ]) (21 June 1929 – 30 March 1977), [1] was an Egyptian singer, actor, conductor, businessman, music teacher and film producer.
"Lm3allem" by Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred is the most-viewed Arabic music video with 1 billion views in May 2023. [1] [2] "Ya Lili" by Tunisian singer Balti with Hammouda is the second video to garner over 700 million views. [3] [4] [5] "Happy Happy" by Bahrani singer Hala Al Turk become the first Arabic music video to cross 100 million views.
For 20 years, Menzel’s performance of Wicked's signature show-stopper “Defying Gravity” has been the version that every aspiring musical theater star has had to live up to. But Schwartz ...
' of the people ' or ' locally popular ') [1] is an Egyptian musical genre. It is a form of popular working-class music which evolved from Egyptian Baladi in the second half of the 20th century, it's the core of Egyptian people music in streets and weddings and every day Egyptian life.