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Asmahan

1917 - 1944

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Amal al-Atrash (Arabic: آمال الأطرش Āmāl al-Aṭrash, North Levantine Arabic pronunciation: [(ʔ)æːmæːl lˈ(ʔ)ætˤrɑʃ]; November 25, 1912 – July 14, 1944), better known by her stage name Asmahan (أسمهان, Arabic pronunciation: [ʔasmahaːn] Asmahān), was a Syrian singer. Having immigrated to Egypt at the age of three years old from Syria, her family knew the composer Dawood Hosni, and she sang the compositions of Mohamed El Qasabgi and Zakariyya Ahmad. She also sang the compositions of Mohammed Abdel Wahab and her brother Farid al-Atrash, a then rising star musician in his own right. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Asmahan has received more than 503,400 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Asmahan is the 210th most popular singer (up from 308th in 2019). (up from 62nd in 2019)

Memorability Metrics

  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Asmahan ranks 210 out of 4,381. Before her are Dionne Warwick, Ben E. King, Mahalia Jackson, Dr. Dre, Mariska Veres, and Britney Spears. After her are Kris Kristofferson, Caterina Valente, Mylène Farmer, Boris Christoff, Etta James, and Chavela Vargas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Asmahan ranks 60. Before her are Leonora Carrington, Chung Il-kwon, Thelonious Monk, Susan Hayward, John Fenn, and Masahiko Kimura. After her are Herbert Lom, David Easton, Rodney Robert Porter, Dinu Lipatti, Juan Rulfo, and Yigael Yadin. Among people deceased in 1944, Asmahan ranks 63. Before her are Jean Giraudoux, Walter Nowotny, Mohammed Alim Khan, George Stinney, Christian Wirth, and Jean Tatlock. After her are Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, August Landmesser, Erich Fellgiebel, Ida Tarbell, Leo Baekeland, and Günther Korten.

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