"Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt and the audience of Elvis and you have Umm Kulthum." ~ Virginia Danielson, Harvard Magazine
Please allow me to introduce you to the world of beauty that is Umm Kulthum. She is famously known in Egypt as "El-Sett" (translation: The Woman / The Lady). What Édith Piaf was to France is what Umm Kulthum was to the Arab world (and even beyond that).
(:
No comments:
Post a Comment