Um Kalthoum / Oum Kalsoum - Enta El Hob + El Ahat (1965/1966)
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Genre: World Ethnic / Arabic

Called by some kawkab al-sharq (star of the East) and by others 'empress of Arab tunes,' Umm Kalthum, with a voice powerful and clear, can still be heard daily on radio stations in the multitudes of coffee shops and taxis all over the Arab world. Even though she died over three decades ago, her love lyrics, national odes and religious chants continue to affect millions of people. Her audience, as if on cue, hums along or cries in despair in reaction to her range of pitch, filled with nostalgia and yearning, touching the very Arab soul.

Labeled "indisputably the Arab world's greatest singer" by World Music: The Rough Guide, Egyptian singer Umm Kalthum (alternately spelled Kalthoum or Kalsoum) 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."

Umm Kulthum (Arabic: ?? ?????; Umm Kultum, also spelled Om Koultoum, Om Kalthoum, mmü Gülsüm, Oum Kalsoum, Oum Kalthum, Omm Kolsoum, Umm Kolthoum, Um Kalthoom, and Omme Kolsoum, born ????? ??????? ????????, Fatima Ibrahim al-Baltagi) (December 31, 1904-February 3, 1975) in Al Senbellawein. Egyptian singer, songwriter, and an actress. She is known as "the Star of the East". More than three decades after her death, she is still recognized as the Arab world's most famous and distinguished singer of the 20th century.

Tracks:
1. Enta El Hob [You Are Love] (1965)
36m:08s
Music : Mohamed Abdel Wahab
Lyrics: Ahmad Rami

2. El Ahat [The Sights] (1966)
33m:42s
Music : Riad Al Sonbati
Lyrics: Ibrahim Naji

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