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Legend
Oum Kalsoum (whose name is more often spelled Umm Kulthum -- or any of several other ways) is often called "The Diva of Arab Song" or, as this collection's subtitle puts it, "The Arab World's Greatest Singer." That's no hyperbole: born in Egypt in 1904 she defied convention in her country by insisting on doing things her way, and she ultimately became so massively popular that when she died in 1975, an estimated four million people crowded the streets of Cairo to pay their respects. Although there are dozens of CDs compiling her work (most found under the aforementioned alternate spelling), few put it into any configuration that makes any real sense of her output or breathes life into it, an...
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