Sharifa Fadel

Sharifa Fadel ( Arabic شريفة فاضل Šarīfa Fāḍil , aka: Tawfika Ahmed Nada ; * September 27, 1938 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian singer and actress.

Sheikh Ahmed Nada's granddaughter had lessons from Islamic religious singing teachers in her youth and attended a singing course at the Institute for Performing Arts in Cairo. In 1948 she made her debut as an actress in Omar Gomai's film El laab bil nar . In the early 1950s she had her first success as a singer with Amana Ya Bokra .

She married the director El Sayed Bedeir , with whom she had a son. This fell in the Yom Kippur War . As an actress, she has appeared in other films since the 1950s, such as Mufattish el mabahess (1960) by Hussein Fawzi , Ghazia men Sonbat (1967) by El-Sayed Ziada and Sultana to Tarab (1978) by Hassan Al Imam . In 1973 she had another great success as a singer with Umm al Batal . In her singing she combines classical Arabic singing with folk music and echoes of western pop music and is considered to be the forerunner of the Shaabi music genre .

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SURNAME	Fadel, Sharifa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nada, Tawfika Ahmed; شريفة فاضل (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Egyptian singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cairo