Gamma Sensualist

Ji idiosyncratic

Active from the 1920s to the 1970s

Given the honorific title Kawkab el-Sharq (Arabic: كوكب الشرق, lit. 'Planet of the East')

Immensely popular throughout the Middle East and beyond, she is a national icon in her native Egypt

Dubbed "The Voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid"

In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked her at number 61 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time

Her funeral in 1975 drew a crowd of over 4 million people, the largest human gathering in Egypt's history, even surpassing that of president Gamal Abdel Nasser

Learned to recite the Qur'an, and she reportedly memorized the entire book