Etab

Tarouf Abdulkhair Adam Talal, stage name Etab, was a Saudi Arabian singer. She was active from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Life

Etab was born on the 30 December 1947 in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. She moved to Egypt soon after her marriage to an Egyptian man in 1978. In 1983 she became an Egyptian citizen.
She started singing in the 1960s, and performed at weddings with Sarah Osman and the ʻoud player Hayat Saleh. She recorded more than fifteen albums and appeared in three films. She became ill with cancer in 1997, and died in Cairo on the 19 August 2007.
She was a member of the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate and of the Union of Arab Artists. On the 30 December 2017, which would have been her seventieth birthday, she was the subject of a Google Doodle.
On the 19 August 2007, she died at the age of 59 in Cairo, after a long struggle with cancer.