| Her birth date is unconfirmed, as birth registration was not enforced throughout Egypt at that time | Gharib' Ala Bab erraja "Stranger at the door of hope" 1955• Ya Msaharny "You that keeps me awake at night" 1972 Maqam Rast• Men Agl Aynayk "For your eyes" 1972• Umm Kulthum with in in 1971 The spontaneous creativity of Umm Kulthum as a singer is most impressive when, upon listening to these many different renditions of the same song over a time span of five years 1954—1959 , the listener is offered a totally unique and different experience |
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| Howwa Sahih El-Hawa Ghallab "Is love really stronger? Retrospective — Artists Arabes Associes• Until 1972, for about half a century she gave at least one monthly concert | Danielson, Virginia 10 November 2008 , pp |
| Danielson, Virginia 10 November 2008 , p | "The Ruins" Maqam Rahat Alarwah 1966• Simultaneously, Umm Kulthum started to rely heavily on a younger composer who joined her artistic team a few years earlier: |
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| 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 | Zalamna El Hob "Love has been unjust to us" 1962 Filmography [ ]• The Classics — CD, EMI Arabia, 2001• Araka asiya al-dam "I see you refusing to cry" 1964• Ana Fi Entezarak "I am waiting for you" 1943• Umm Kulthum as a toddler, with her father Ibrahim El Beltagi Umm Kulthum was born into 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 simple housewife |
Her father would only change his mind upon the persuasive arguments of Amin Al Mahdi.