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Her influence kept growing and expanding beyond the artistic scene: the reigning royal family would request private concerts and even attend her public performances. From then on onwards, she performed at a concert on every first Thursday of a month for forty years. In 1934, Umm Kulthum sang for the inaugural broadcast of Radio Cairo, the state station. Poster advertising Umm Kulthum's concert in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. In 1932, she embarked upon a major tour of the Middle East and North Africa, performing in prominent Arab capital cities such as Damascus, Baghdad, Beirut, Rabat, Tunis, and Tripoli. By 1930, she was so well known to the public, that she was the example to follow for several young female singers.
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Al-Ila Muhammad instructed her in the control over her voice, and variants of the Arabic Muwashshah. Other musicians who influenced her musical performances at the time were Dawwod Hosni or Abu al-Ila Muhammad. Furthermore, she was introduced to the renowned oud virtuoso and composer Mohamed El Qasabgi, who introduced her to the Arabic Theatre Palace, where she would experience her first real public success. She also maintained a tightly managed public image, which undoubtedly added to her allure. In 1926, she left Odeon records for Gramophone records who would pay her about the double per record and even gave her an additional annual income of $10,000.
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In 1924, she was introduced to the poet Ahmed Rami, who was to write 137 songs for her and also introduced her to French literature eventually becoming her head mentor in Arabic literature and literary analysis.
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Professional career Īmin Al Mahdi welcomed her into the cultural circles in Cairo.
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in 1923 she struck a contract with Odeon records which by 1926 would pay her more than any other Egyptian musical artist per record. Following Umm Kulthum made a public statement regarding visits in her household, which she announced she would not receive. Her father would only change his mind upon the persuasive arguments of Amin Al Mahdi. El Mahdeya's friend, who worked as an editor at Al-Masra, several times suggested that Umm Kulthum must have married one of the guests who frequently visited her household, to the extent that her father decided to return to the village they came from together with his family. Umm Kulthum even attended Rawheya's daughter's wedding, although she ordinarily preferred not to appear in public (offstage).ĭuring her early career years, she faced staunch competition from two prominent singers: Mounira El Mahdeya and Fathiyya Ahmad, who had similar voices. She developed a close relationship with Rawheya Al-Mahdi, Amin's daughter, and became her closest friend. She was invited on several occasions to the home of Amin Beh Al Mahdy, who taught her to play the oud, a type of lute. Although she made several visits to Cairo in the early 1920s, she waited until 1923 before permanently moving there. A few years later, she met the famous composer and oudist Zakariyya Ahmad, who invited her to Cairo. At the age of 16, she was noticed by Mohamed Abo Al-Ela, a modestly famous singer, who taught her the old classical Arabic repertoire. On stage, she wore a boy's cloak and bedouin head covering in order to alleviate her father's anxiety about her reputation and public performance. When she was 12 years old, having noticed her strength in singing, her father asked her to join the family ensemble, upon which she joined as a supporting voice, at the beginning just repeating what the others sung. Her grandfather was also a well known reader of the Quran and she remembered how the villagers used to listen to him when he recited the Qu'ran. Through her father, she learned to recite the Qur'an, and she reportedly memorized the entire book. From a young age, she showed exceptional singing talent.
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She learned how to sing by listening to her father teach her older brother, Khalid. Umm Kulthum was born in the village of Tamay e-Zahayra, belonging to the city of Senbellawein, Dakahlia Governorate, in the Nile Delta to a family with a religious background as her father Ibrahim El-Sayyid El-Beltagi was an imam from the Egyptian countryside, her mother was Fatmah El-Maleegi, a housewife. Umm Kulthum as a toddler, with her father Ibrahim El Beltagi