Egyptian music

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Chapters: Albums by Egyptian artists, Egyptian musical groups, Egyptian musicians, Egyptian musicologists, Egyptian record producers, Egyptian songs, Jazz festivals in Egypt, Umm Kulthum, Tamer Hosny, Eftekasat, Hossam Ramzy, Karim Nagi, Music of Egypt, Massar Egbari, Aly & Fila, Sherif Nour, Cairo Congress of Arab Music, Shaaban Abdel Rahim, Sha'abi, Alypius, Oyoun Group, Mouled Sidi El-Latini, Egyptian hip hop, Cairo Celebration Choir, Moustafa Amar, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Salah Ragab, Mohamed El Qasabgi, Hisham Abbas, Wust El-Balad, Sheikh Imam, Ragheb Moftah, Amal Maher, Habibi Dah, Mazaher, Tarek Ali Hassan, Kamal Hosni, WAMA, Nader Nour, Adel Kamel, Ya Mustafa, Mustafa Said, Jaber Abu Hussein, Al Jeel, Fathy Salama, Samha El-Kholy, Mohamed Nour, Mohammad Fouad, Tigi Tigi, MTM, Cairo Jazz Festival, Takht, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Arabia Act, Sawah, Emad Adeeb, Zaffa, Zakariyya Ahmad, Simsimiyya, Mohammed al-Qasabji, Hesama, Firqa, Tanoura, Reyad Elsonbaty. Excerpt: Umm Kulthum (Arabic: ¿, born , DIN: ; see Kunya; Egyptian Arabic: Om Kalsoum) (December 31, 1898-February 3, 1975) was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Tamay ez-Zahayra village that belongs to El Senbellawein, she is known as the Planet of the East (kawkab el-sharq). More than three decades after her death, she is widely regarded as the greatest female singer in Arab music history. Various spellings of her name include Om Koultoum, Om Kalthoum, Oumme Kalsoum and Umm Kolthoum. Umm Kulthum was born in Tamay ez-Zahayra village in El Senbellawein, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, in Dakahlia, in the Nile Delta, near the Mediterranean Sea. Her birth date is unconfirmed as birth registration was not enforced throughout the Arab world. The Egyptian Ministry of Information seems to have given either December 31, 1898, or December 31, 1904. She was likely born some time between these two dates. At a young age, she showed exceptional singing talent. Her father, an Imam, taught her to recite the Qur'an, and she is said to have memorized the entire book. When she was 12 years old, her father disguised her as a young boy and entered her in a small performing troupe that he directed. At the age of 16, she was noticed by Mohamed Aboul Ela, a modestly famous singer, who taught her the old classical repertoire. A few years later, she met the famous composer and oudist Zakariyya Ahmad, who invited her to come to Cairo. Although she made several visits to Cairo in the early 1920s, she waited until 1923 before permanently moving there. She was invited on several occasions to the house of Amin Beh Al Mahdy, who taught her how to play the oud, a type of lute. She developed a very close relationship to Rawheya Al Mahdi, daughter of Amin, and became her closest friend. Kulthum even attended Rawheya's daughter's wedding, although she always tried to avoid public appearances. Amin Al Mahdi introduced her to the cultural circles in Cairo. In Cairo, she carefully avoided succum