1917 - 1944
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.
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Among singers, Asmahan ranks 308 out of 3,528. Before 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.
1949 - 2021
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 302
1936 - 1970
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 303
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 304
1916 - 1989
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 305
1961 - Present
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 306
1938 - Present
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 307
1917 - 1944
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 308
1942 - 2008
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 309
1927 - 1999
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 310
1947 - 1985
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 311
1963 - Present
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 312
1623 - 1669
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 313
1946 - 2006
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 314
Among people born in 1917, Asmahan ranks 86. Before 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 91. Before 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.
1917 - 2004
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 80
1917 - 1957
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 81
1917 - 2011
HPI: 57.69
Rank: 82
1917 - 1987
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 83
1917 - 1997
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 84
1917 - 2005
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 85
1917 - 1944
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 86
1917 - 1994
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 87
1917 - 2020
HPI: 57.31
Rank: 88
1917 - 2009
HPI: 57.26
Rank: 89
1917 - 1945
HPI: 57.18
Rank: 90
1917 - 1997
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 91
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 92
1915 - 1944
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 85
1881 - 1944
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 86
1855 - 1944
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 87
1881 - 1944
HPI: 57.79
Rank: 88
1871 - 1944
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 89
1896 - 1944
HPI: 57.67
Rank: 90
1917 - 1944
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 91
1925 - 1944
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 92
1926 - 1944
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 93
1928 - 1944
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 94
1885 - 1944
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 95
1897 - 1944
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 96
1877 - 1944
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 97
Among people born in Syria, Asmahan ranks 62 out of 181. Before 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).
1921 - 2009
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 56
1526 - 1580
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 57
1474 - 1517
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 58
1800 BC - 1800 BC
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 59
1932 - 2015
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 60
266 - 273
HPI: 57.77
Rank: 61
1917 - 1944
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 62
1095 - 1188
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 63
1304 - 1375
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 64
1910 - 1974
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 65
150 BC - 94 BC
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 66
788 - 846
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 67
1932 - 2020
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 68
Among singers born in Syria, Asmahan ranks 1. After her are Sabah Fakhri (1933), Omar Souleyman (1966), George Wassouf (1961), and Assala Nasri (1969).
1917 - 1944
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 1
1933 - 2021
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 2
1966 - Present
HPI: 45.83
Rank: 3
1961 - Present
HPI: 45.32
Rank: 4
1969 - Present
HPI: 42.60
Rank: 5