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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-Egyptian singer.Having immigrated to Egypt at the age of three years old, 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. Her voice was one of the few female voices in Arab music world to pose serious competition to that of Umm Kulthum, who is considered to be one of the Arab world's most distinguished singers of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Asmahan has received more than 476,611 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Asmahan is the 308th most popular singer (down from 286th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Syria and the most popular Syrian Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Asmahan ranks 308 out of 3,528Before her are Alan Lancaster, Théo Sarapo, C. C. Catch, Pérez Prado, Boy George, and Tereza Kesovija. After her are Muslim Magomayev, Alfredo Kraus, David Byron, Joey Tempest, Antonio Cesti, and Billy Preston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Asmahan ranks 86Before her are Jean Rouch, Pedro Infante, Harold Garfinkel, Buddy Rich, Alparslan Türkeş, and Zhang Chunqiao. After her are Nikolai Ogarkov, Vera Lynn, Irving Penn, Otto Kittel, Giuseppe De Santis, and Vasily Petrov. Among people deceased in 1944, Asmahan ranks 91Before her are Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Ulrich von Hassell, Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Artur Phleps, Sergei Bulgakov, and Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff. After her are Aliya Moldagulova, Zinaida Portnova, Petr Ginz, Agustín Barrios, Kurt Gerron, and Chaim Rumkowski.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Asmahan ranks 62 out of 181Before her are Amin al-Hafiz (1921), Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf (1526), Tuman bay II (1474), Zimri-Lim (-1800), Khaled al-Asaad (1932), and Vaballathus (266). After her are Usama ibn Munqidh (1095), Ibn al-Shatir (1304), Farid al-Atrash (1910), Seleucus VI Epiphanes (-150), Abu Tammam (788), and Abdul Halim Khaddam (1932).

Among SINGERS In Syria

Among singers born in Syria, Asmahan ranks 1After her are Sabah Fakhri (1933), Omar Souleyman (1966), George Wassouf (1961), and Assala Nasri (1969).