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Umm Kulthum Essay

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Essay on Umm Kulthum as an Iconic Diva Reputation is the quality or belief or estimation of a social entity (a person or an organization) by public or people. It is a kind of social evaluation of the particular social person or thing. Reputation of a person can be attained at a certain moment in their life with the analysis of his or her past. Some become famous early and some become popular at the later stage of their life. Hence the theme of reputation is complex in nature of arts. Cleopatra, Stalin, Dalai Lama, Michael Faraday are the significant figures of reputation. The essay is about a Diva who attained reputation. The term Diva is attained from an Italian word which means Goddess. It denotes a person of great vocal facility and of …show more content…

Skilled people are not born genius by birth. Umm Kulthum encountered issues in her life and gathered achievements in the later part of her life that made her a reputed person. When she was a kid, she learned singing by admiring at her father who taught her older brother. The father noticed Umm Kulthum’s singing talent which was exceptional and he made her learn music through appointing the singer Mohamed Aboul Ela who taught her the old classical collection of Arabic verses at the age of 16. Throughout her personal career, she met several famous musicians, poets and singers who played a momentous part in her life to shape her …show more content…

Umm Kulthum’s concern as a prominent figure happened due to several factors. Personally she had two competitors who lacked the characteristics of Kulthum’s wonderful voice. This reason called for the attraction of musicians, singers and concerts to get acquainted with Umm Kulthum. The public factors include her first singing for the inaugural of radio station Radio Cairo in 1934 that marked the beginning of her diva status. After that her appearance in music movies and live concerts played together to the firm establishment of Umm Kulthum as the most popular female singer of Arabic music. Public comments and quotes of world renowned singers and musicians add to the tailoring of her reputation. The Nobel Prize Winner American Singer Bob Dylan once when asked about the Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum in one of his interviews, he tells as, “I think she is popular all over the Middle East, she did mostly love and prayer-type songs, her father chanted those prayers, she was so good that he allowed her to sing professionally. She is gone now but not forgotten.”( English.alarabiya.net, 2017) He said Umm Kulthum is really a great Arab icon. He was stunned by the performance of Umm Kulthum. In ‘Homage to a Belly Dancer’, Edward Said says about Umm Kulthum, “The greatest and most famous singer of the twentieth-century Arab world was Um Kalthoum, whose records and cassettes,

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