Umm Kulthum

Also known as Omm Kalthum, Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi

Egyptian singer and actress (1904–1975)

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Umm Kulthum was an Egyptian singer and actress who lived from 1904 to 1975 and became one of the most influential and beloved entertainers in Arab history. Her powerful voice and emotional performances made her an iconic figure across the Arab world, and she remains deeply significant to Egyptian and Arab culture decades after her death.

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Fatima Ibrahim as-Sayyid al-Beltagi (Arabic: فاطمة إبراهيم السيد البلتاجي), known as Umm Kalthoum (Arabic: أم كلثوم), also spelled Oum Kalsoum (or Om-e Kalsūm in Egyptian dialect) or sometimes Umm Kulthum, and nicknamed "Souma", is an Egyptian singer, musician and actress, born December 31, 1898 in Ṭamāy al-Zahāyira (in the Simballāwayn district of the Dakhleya governorate in Egypt) and died…

Known for

Hommage to Oum Kalthoum Paris Philharmonic2025
Oum Kalthoum, la voix du Caire — Self (archives footage)2017
Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt — Self (archives footage)1996
An Egyptian Story1982
Rabea Al Adaweiah — Ghina'1963
Fatmah — Fatmah1947
Salamah — سلامة1945
Eayida — عايدة1942
Dananeir — دنانير1940
Hymn of Hope — Amaal1937

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Fatima
Gender: female
Citizenship: Egypt
Place of death: Cairo
Occupation: film actor
Languages spoken: Arabic
Native language: Egyptian Arabic
Religion: Islam
Award: Order of the Republic
Genre: music of Egypt
Instrument: voice
Record label: Sono Cairo
Image: Umm Kulthum as Fatimah.jpg
Voice type: contralto

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birth name: فاطمه ابراهيم السيد البلتاجى
end of work period: 1975-00-00
Commons category: Umm Kulthum
date of birth: 1904-05-04
start of work period: 1923-00-00
date of death: 1975-02-03
place of burial: Al Basatin
name in native language: أم كلثوم

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Encyclopedic overview

Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi (4 May 1904 – 3 February 1975), known by her stage name Umm Kulthum, was an Egyptian singer and film actress. She was given the honorific title Kawkab el-Sharq (Egyptian Arabic: كوكب الشرق, lit. 'Planet of the East'). 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". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Umm Kulthum at number 61 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.

She is widely regarded as Egypt and the Arab world's most distinguished singer of the 20th century. Her funeral in Cairo in 1975 drew a crowd of over 4 million people, the largest human gathering in Egypt's history, and one of the largest funerals in history.

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