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Umm Kulthum
Egyptian singer-songwriter, actress (1898–1975)
This article is about the Egyptian singer. For other uses, see Umm Kulthum (name).
Musical artist
Umm Kulthum[a] (Arabic: أم كلثوم; 31 December 1898 [3][4] – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptiansinger, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s.
She was given the honorific title Kawkab el-Sharq (Arabic: كوكب الشرق, lit. 'Planet of the Orient').[5] Immensely popular throughout the Middle East and beyond, Kulthum is a national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed "The Voice of Egypt"[6][7] and "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid".[8][9] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Kulthum at number 61 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.[10][11]
Her funeral in 1975 drew a crowd of over 4 million people, the largest human gathering in Egypt's history, even surpassing that of president
