Nagat El Sagheera
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| Nagat El Sagheera نجاة الصغيرة | |
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| Background information/معلومات عامة | |
| Birth name | Nagat Mohammad Mahmoud |
| Origin | Cairo, Egypt |
| Genre(s) | Arabic |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
Nagat El Sagheera, also spelled Nagat El Saghira, was born to a simple, middle class family. Her father, Mohammad Hosni Effendi was a calligrapher, who played 'ud (the lute). Her elder bother Ezzeldien wrote music, and her younger sister, was film diva Suad Hosni.
Nagat started signing at age 5 when she sang Umm Kalthum's song ghanni ya karawan (Sing Curlew), at a concert at the Oriental Music Club. She was called al-Saghira (the Young) to distinguish her from the then famous singer Nagat Ali.
Young as she was, she surrounded herself with a group of intellectuals, e.g. Mohammad al-Tab'ie, brothers Kamel and Ma'moun al-Shennawi and Fikri Abaza, who would guide her along with an inbred thoroughness bordering on paranoia as regards her work, which has made her so successful as a singer.
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