Etab
عتاب

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* Arabic: طروف عبد الخير آدم طلال
* tarūf ʻabdul-ḵair ṭallāl

Born| (1947-12-30)30 December 1947
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Died| 19 August 2007(2007-08-19) (aged 59)
Cairo, Egypt
Occupation(s)| singer, actress
Years active| 1960s–1990s

Musical artist

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. She was active from the 1960s to the 1990s.[1]

## Life

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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]

On August 19, 2007, she died at the age of 59 in Cairo, after a long struggle with cancer.[4]

## See also

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* Arabic music
* Ibtisam Lutfi
* Khaliji music
* Music of Saudi Arabia
* Culture of Saudi Arabia

## References

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1. ^ a b c d Ali Hawash (21 August 2007). First Female Saudi Singer Etab Dies at 69. Arab News. Archived 6 February 2017.
2. ^ a b c [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.
4. ^ "Death of artist "Atab", pioneer of Gulf Artists". Arab News (in Arabic). 21 August 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2025.

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