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Fatheya Ahmed | |
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| Born | 1898 Cairo, Egypt |
| Died | 5 December 1975 |
Fatheya Ahmed (1898 – 5 December 1975), also called Touha, was an Egyptian classical singer and actress[1] who "carried the practice of Waslah into the 20th century".[2] She also sang many traditional and modern melodies on Takht in the tradition of awâlim in which female entertainers perform for women-only audiences during wedding celebrations.[3] She had a “unique mastery of the mawwal”, a traditional and popular Arabic genre of vocal music.[4] She was known for singing poems and monologues, and sang some folk songs with Sayed Darwish, a popular Egyptian singer and composer.[5][4] She sang in the 1943 film Ahlam el Shabab (1943).[4]
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