Tarouf Abdulkhair Adam Talal (Arabic: طروف عبد الخير آدم طلال, 30 December 1947 – 19 August 2007), stage name Etab (Arabic: عتاب, romanized: ʻitāb), was a Saudi Arabian singer active from the 1960s to the 1990s.[1]
Life
Etab was born on 30 December 1947 in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.[2] She moved to Egypt soon after her marriage to an Egyptian man in 1978; in 1983 she became an Egyptian citizen.[1]
She started singing in the 1960s, and performed at weddings with Sarah Osman and the ʻoud player Hayat Saleh.[2] She recorded more than fifteen albums and appeared in three films.[1] She became ill with cancer in 1997, and died in Cairo on 19 August 2007.[1]
She was a member of the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate and of the Union of Arab Artists.[3] On 30 December 2017 – which would have been her seventieth birthday – she was the subject of a Google Doodle.[2]
