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Umm Kulthum

1898 - 1975

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Umm Kulthum (Arabic: أم كلثوم; c. 4 May 1904 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptian singer and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title Kawkab el-Sharq (Arabic: كوكب الشرق, lit. 'Star of the Orient'). Immensely popular throughout the Middle East and beyond, Umm Kulthum is a national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed "The Voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Umm Kulthum is the 20th most popular singer (up from 25th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Egypt (up from 39th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Singer.

Umm Kulthum was a singer from Egypt who is most famous for her voice and her songs.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Umm Kulthum ranks 20 out of 4,381. Before her are Plácido Domingo, Frank Sinatra, Julio Iglesias, David Bowie, Adriano Celentano, and Dalida. After her are Montserrat Caballé, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, Demis Roussos, Enrico Caruso, and Tina Turner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Umm Kulthum ranks 10. Before her are Alvar Aalto, Federico García Lorca, Enzo Ferrari, Sergei Eisenstein, René Magritte, and Stefania Turkewich. After her are Zhou Enlai, Leo Szilard, William James Sidis, M. C. Escher, Albert Lutuli, and George Gershwin. Among people deceased in 1975, Umm Kulthum ranks 8. Before her are Chiang Kai-shek, Francisco Franco, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ivo Andrić, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. After her are Aristotle Onassis, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Robert Robinson, Otto Skorzeny, Josephine Baker, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Umm Kulthum ranks 32 out of 642. Before her are Hagar (-1800), Hero of Alexandria (10), Athanasius of Alexandria (295), Diophantus (201), Nefertari (-1290), and Dalida (1933). After her are Joshua (-1355), Seti I (-1323), Caesarion (-47), Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (-60), Demis Roussos (1946), and Mohamed Morsi (1951).

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Among SINGERS In Egypt

Among singers born in Egypt, Umm Kulthum ranks 2. Before her are Dalida (1933). After her are Demis Roussos (1946), Georges Moustaki (1934), Claude François (1939), Mohammed Abdel Wahab (1901), Amr Diab (1961), Leila Mourad (1918), Sayed Darwish (1892), Gohar Gasparyan (1924), Guy Béart (1930), and Richard Anthony (1938).

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