Etab

Tarouf Abdulkhair Adam Talal (Arabic: طروف عبد الخير آدم طلال, 30 December 1947 – 19 August 2007), stage name Etab (Arabic: عتاب, romanized: ʻitāb), was a Saudi Arabian singer active from the 1960s to the 1990s.[1]

Etab
عتاب
Background information
Birth name
  • Arabic: طروف عبد الخير آدم طلال
  • tarūf ʻabdul-ḵair ṭallāl
Born(1947-12-30)30 December 1947
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Died19 August 2007(2007-08-19) (aged 59)
Cairo, Egypt
Occupation(s)singer, actress
Years active1960s–1990s

Life

Etab was born on 30 December 1947 in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.[2] She moved to Egypt soon after her marriage to an Egyptian man in 1978; in 1983 she became an Egyptian citizen.[1]

She started singing in the 1960s, and performed at weddings with Sarah Osman and the ʻoud player Hayat Saleh.[2] She recorded more than fifteen albums and appeared in three films.[1] She became ill with cancer in 1997, and died in Cairo on 19 August 2007.[1]

She was a member of the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate and of the Union of Arab Artists.[3] On 30 December 2017 – which would have been her seventieth birthday – she was the subject of a Google Doodle.[2]

See also

References
  1. Ali Hawash (21 August 2007). First Female Saudi Singer Etab Dies at 69. Arab News. Archived 6 February 2017.
  2. [s.n.] (30 December 2017). Google Doodle celebrates Saudi singer Etab. Al Arabiya. Accessed January 2018.
  3. [staff] (30 December 2017). Profile: Etab, Saudi Arabia’s first female singer. Egypt Today. Archived 14 February 2023.


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