{{Infobox musical artist | name = Etab<br>عتاب | image = Etab, Saudi singer.jpg | birth_name = {{ubl|{{nowrap|{{langx|ar|طروف عبد الخير آدم طلال}}}}|{{nowrap|tarūf ʻabdul-ḵair ṭallāl}}}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1947|12|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|08|19|1947|12|30|df=y}} | death_place = Cairo, Egypt | occupation = singer, actress | instrument = | years_active = 1960s–1990s | associated_acts = Talal Maddah }}
'''Tarouf Abdulkhair Adam Talal''' ({{langx|ar|طروف عبد الخير آدم طلال}}, 30 December 1947 – 19 August 2007), stage name '''Etab''' ({{langx|ar|عتاب|translit= {{noitalic|ʻitāb}}}}), was a Saudi Arabian singer. She was active from the 1960s to the 1990s.{{r|an}}
== Life == Etab was born on the 30 December 1947 in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.{{r|alar}} She moved to Egypt soon after her marriage to an Egyptian man in 1978. In 1983 she became an Egyptian citizen.{{r|an}}
She started singing in the 1960s, and performed at weddings with Sarah Osman and the ʻoud player Hayat Saleh.{{r|alar}} She recorded more than fifteen albums and appeared in three films.{{r|an}} She became ill with cancer in 1997, and died in Cairo on the 19 August 2007.{{r|an}}
She was a member of the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate and of the Union of Arab Artists.{{r|et}} On the 30 December 2017, which would have been her seventieth birthday, she was the subject of a Google Doodle.{{r|alar}}
On the 19 August 2007, she died at the age of 59 in Cairo, after a long struggle with cancer.<ref>{{cite news|title=Death of artist "Atab", pioneer of Gulf Artists|url=https://www.radiosawa.com/a/136637.html|work=Arab News|date=21 August 2007|accessdate=14 January 2025|language=ar|archive-date=30 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230114635/https://www.radiosawa.com/a/136637.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
== See also == * Arabic music * Ibtisam Lutfi * Khaliji music * Music of Saudi Arabia * Culture of Saudi Arabia
== References == {{Reflist|45em|refs=
<ref name=alar>[s.n.] (30 December 2017). [https://english.alarabiya.net/en/tools/tags.html?tags=fbcec354-0091-490c-bf72-14c14a796d18&tagLabel=etab Google Doodle celebrates Saudi singer Etab]. ''Al Arabiya''. Accessed January 2018.</ref>
<ref name=an>Ali Hawash (21 August 2007). [https://web.archive.org/web/20170206214157/http://www.arabnews.com/node/302399 First Female Saudi Singer Etab Dies at 69]. ''Arab News''. Archived 6 February 2017.</ref>
<ref name=et>[staff] (30 December 2017). [https://web.archive.org/web/20230214095813/https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/38857/Profile-Etab-Saudi-Arabia’s-first-female-singer Profile: Etab, Saudi Arabia’s first female singer]. ''Egypt Today''. Archived 14 February 2023.</ref>
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Category:1947 births Category:20th-century Saudi Arabian women singers Category:2007 deaths
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