سهام

An Egyptian singer, born in Alexandria in 1907. She became famous as a singer in the mid-twenties and early thirties of the last century, a period in which female voices competed in nightclubs. But Miss Siham distinguished herself among the peers of her generation, and gained her share of fame. She recorded her songs on the records of the Gramophone Company, and because her voice resembled the voice of Mrs. Umm Kulthum, some malicious people took advantage of this similarity and wrote the name Umm Kulthum. Kulthum on some of Siham’s discs, and among her most famous songs: O white night, O my sultan’s day, How sweet is the reproach of two lovers, Nights of love between your happiness, The world has a lot, In you, night, Between my heart and the magic of your eyes is a war, Where is my heart, This is love, the secret of life, Love at its beginning, Oh what I saw in my love. Miss Siham participated in the film The Delegate in 1934, where she played the role of Amina, the daughter of the teacher, Bahbah. She sang two songs in the film, the first in Shara Min, and the second, Yama Qalul Miss Siham did not marry and died in 1952, months before the July 1952 revolution.