Etab
Musical artist
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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
Etab was born on the 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 the 19 August 2007.[1]
She was a member of the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate and of the Union of Arab Artists.[3] On the 30 December 2017, which would have been her seventieth birthday, she was the subject of a Google Doodle.[2]
On the 19 August 2007, she died at the age of 59 in Cairo, after a long struggle with cancer.[4]
