Oum Kalthoum - Howwa Sahih El-Hawa Ghallab (nazara) improvisation part 2 of 2

Om (or Oum, Omm, Omme, Oom, Um, Umm) Kalsoum (or Kalsum, Kaltsoum, Kalthoum, Kalthum, Kalthoom, Khalsoum, Khalsum, Khalthoum, Khalthum, Kaltoum, Kolsoum, Kolsum, Kolthoum, Kolthum, Kolthom, Koolsum, Koulsoum, Koulsoun, Koulthoum, Kultum, Kulthum, Kulthume, Kelthoom)

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UMM KULTHUM (THE STAR OF THE EAST)

Egyptian-born voice of Arabs: Umm Kulthum (1898-1975):

Umm Kulthum is the Arab world's most famous and distinguished singer of the 20th Century.

Few Westerners ever fathomed the appeal of Umm Kulthum, the buxom, handkerchief-waving Egyptian singer who was known to her Middle Eastern fans as The Nightingale of the Nile.

She had a stentorian contralto and a quavering wail that grated on the ears of those attuned to the trills of opera divas.

Not only was her voice strong, but she perfected a technique of rephrasing passages. She once sang a single line in 52 different ways — that drove audiences to rapture.

Her voice was a near-perfect instrument for expressing the sinuous quarter tones of Arabic music.

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Her voice:

It is known that she had the ability to sing as low as the second octave, as well as the ability to sing as high as between the seventh and the eighth octave at her vocal peak; yet she also could easily sing over a range surpassing two octaves near the end of her career. Her remarkable ability to produce approximately 14,000 vibrations per second with her vocal chords, her unparallelled vocal strength (no commercial microphone utilized for singing could withstand its strength, forcing her to stand at a 1-3 meter radius away from one), her ability and capability to sing every single Arabic scale, and her voices unique and breathtaking beauty that surpasses convention, arguably makes her the most incomparable voice of all time. In her final few years, recordings show a slight coarsening of her voice, a loss of the silken golden thread of coloratura which in her earlier years, in songs such as Bairam al-Tunsi's Beredaak, she displayed with an ease and stupendous nonchalance.

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Music

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• Oum
• Kalthoum
• howa
• saheeh
• (nazara)
• improvisation

[yelghadban]

Great post, i'm a big fan so thanx for this !!

[RobertDominkovic]

You are welcome, not a bigger fan than me! :P

[Shirosoyyo]

sure imperessive

[salutcasa2000]

je rajoute une chose à propos de cette soirée, c était les musiciens marocains qui jouaient ....coup de chapeau pour tous ces musiens qui ont marqué l histoire de la musique marocaine et honoré et enchanté le pays dans mainte reprise...je rappelle que nos musiciens en général connaissaient par coeur les chansons d Oum Kaltoum et de Abdelaouahab et Farid et autres vurtioses de jadis...

[besteci2002]

Allah Allah. hançeriyeye bak...

[pinkfrog999]

Can anyone please le me know where to download Oum Kathoum's songs. Thx

[elmariachi2000]

yeay that was her concert in morocco she singed like she never did , a lot og improvisation , but a fir in the archeiv of the moroccan tv caused the vanishing of the this concert , the king hassan 2 use to invite her many times

[envie55]

le spectacle marocain allait flipper cette soirée tellement la diva etait forte ds son improvisation et a pu imporiviser le meme refrin 5fois diffrement