Umm Kulthum
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Umm Kulthum was an Egyptian singer and actress who lived from 1904 to 1975 and became one of the most influential and beloved entertainers in Arab history. Her powerful voice and emotional performances made her an iconic figure across the Arab world, and she remains deeply significant to Egyptian and Arab culture decades after her death.
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- 1898
- Died
- 1975
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- 2
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Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi (4 May 1904 – 3 February 1975), known by her stage name Umm Kulthum, was an Egyptian singer and film actress. She was given the honorific title Kawkab el-Sharq (Egyptian Arabic: كوكب الشرق, lit. 'Planet of the East'). Immensely popular throughout the Middle East and beyond, Umm Kulthum is a national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed "The Voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Umm Kulthum at number 61 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.
She is widely regarded as Egypt and the Arab world's most distinguished singer of the 20th century. Her funeral in Cairo in 1975 drew a crowd of over 4 million people, the largest human gathering in Egypt's history, and one of the largest funerals in history.