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          Egyptian-born vocalist Umm Kulthūm () is considered perhaps the most famous singer in the modern Arab world.

        1. Egyptian-born vocalist Umm Kulthūm () is considered perhaps the most famous singer in the modern Arab world.
        2. Egyptian singer, songwriter, and actress, born December 30, in Tamay ez-Zahayra (not sure, some sources say May 4, ), died February 3, in Cairo.
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        4. Popular music of the Arab world from the first half of the 20th century, with little Western influence; melodic lines are taken from Arabic Folk Music and.
        5. Umm Kulthum was an internationally famous Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress as early as the s and up to the s.

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          Born c. 1904 (some sources say 1898) in Al Mansura, Egypt; died on February 3, 1975, in Cairo, Egypt; also known as Ibrahim Um Kalthum.

          Labeled "indisputably the Arab world's greatest singer" by World Music: The Rough Guide, Egyptian singer Umm Kalthum (alternately spelled Kulthum or Kalthoum) is regarded as a treasure of Middle Eastern culture.

          In a career that lasted more than 50 years she became known as "the voice and face of Egypt" with a voice powerful enough to shatter glass but that was used more often to capture the emotional depth of the poems she set to music.

          Her importance to Egyptian music in particular and Middle Eastern music in general prompted her biographer, Virginia Danielson, to write on the All Music Guide website: "Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt and the audience of Elvis and you have Umm Kulthum, the most accomplished singer of her century in the Arab world." Kalthum's v