Umm Kulthum

Also known as Omm Kalthum, Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi

Egyptian singer and actress (1904–1975)

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Umm Kulthum, also known as Oum Kalthoum, was a female artist from Egypt. Her work period spanned from 1923 to 1975. She is associated with genres including Arabic, Arabic classical music, Egyptian music, and traditional Arabic pop. Her music is categorized under tags such as Arabic, Egyptian, and Oriental Classic.

She released several works, including *Umm Kulthūm*, *al-Nuṣūs al-kāmilah li-jamīʻ aghānī Kawkab al-Sharq Umm Kulthūm*, and *Mudhakkirāt Umm Kulthūm*. Her birth date is listed as either 1898 or 1904, and she died in 1975. She is similar to artists such as Abdel Halim Hafez, Warda, Fairuz, Mohamed Mounir, and George Wassouf. Her works are referenced by 293 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1898
Died: 1975
Works: 2

Top works

Umm Kulthūm
al-Nuṣūs al-kāmilah li-jamīʻ aghānī Kawkab al-Sharq Umm Kulthūm
Mudhakkirāt Umm Kulthūm

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: Egypt
Active from: 1898-12-30
Active to: 1975-02-03

arabicarabic classical musicegyptian musicserver nametraditional arabic pop

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 20,923
Total plays: 152,031

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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