Tarouf Abdulkhair Adam Muhammad al-Talal Hawsawi ( ar, طروف عبد الخير آدم محمد الطلال هوساوي), known professionally as Etab, ( ar, عتاب, translit= ; December 30, 1947 – August 19, 2007) was a

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singer active from the 1960s to the 1990s. Of

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descent, she was born in Saudi Arabia, but moved to Egypt soon after her second marriage to an Egyptian man in 1978. Many Arab music historians agree that she was forced out of Saudi Arabia at the orders of then Saudi King Khalid due to her musical concerts considered risqué in Saudi Arabia at that time. In 1983 she became an Egyptian citizen. Considered one of the first female Saudi singers, Etab started singing in the 1960s, and performed at weddings with Sarah Osman and the ʻoud player Hayat Saleh. She recorded more than 15 albums and appeared in three movies. She became ill with cancer in 1997, and died in Cairo on 19 August 2007. Etab was an advocate for women in music, and member of the Union of Arab Artists and the Musicians Syndicate in Egypt. On December 30, 2017,

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designed a

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commemorating what would have been her 70th birthday.

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1947 births 20th-century Saudi Arabian women singers 2007 deaths Saudi Arabian people of African descent {{SaudiArabia-singer-stub