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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- Sharifa Fadel at Discogs (English)
- Sharifa Fadel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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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 |