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Farid El Atrache

A tenor with a golden voice and an eternal dark beauty, Farid El Atrache is one of Egypt's great artists, alongside diva Oum Kalsoum and composer Mohamed Abdelwahab, whom he would go on to surpass, particularly on screen, among Arab youth. His name circulated among Cairo's rising generation when a compatriot, the Lebanese Badiaâ Massabni, opened the doors of her famous cabaret to him at the beginning of the 30s, practically at the same time as she gave her chance to a promising oriental dancer, Samia Gamal, who would go on to form a legendary couple with Farid El Atrache, both on...