"Umm Al-Batal" and the granddaughter of the founder of the Modern Recitation School.. The death of the Egyptian singer Sharifa Fadel

The Egyptian singer Sharifa Fadel died today, Sunday, March 5, 2023, at the age of 85, after a struggle with aging diseases for years, and a recent health ailment.

Her nephew, Tariq Nada, announced the news of her death on his Facebook page.

Despite the absence of “Sultana Al-Tarab” for many years from the artistic scene due to her illness, the artistic and cultural community interacted with her departure widely through social media platforms, as the “Beautiful Time” page called her, and wrote, “We belong to God and to Him we shall return, the death of the artist Sharifa Fadel, God. Have mercy on her.. the author of the song (Tamm Al-Badr Badri) and (Umm Al-Batal).

And under the hashtag #Umm_Al-Batal, lawyer Tariq Al-Awadi mourned her: “Farewell to the great artist, Sharifa Fadel.”

With her death, Atef Imam - a professor at the Institute of Music - remembered her songs, saying that Sharifa Fadel has many works that live in the conscience, including the song "Tamm Al-Badr Badri", "Umm Al-Batal", "Congratulations to you, my fans, my dear", and “Falah Was Fayet Beginning,” “Harat Al-Saqqayyin,” “Oh Min Patience, Ah,” “Oh, Al-Maktoub,” “The Night,” “Amana Ya Bakra,” “Dur Dur,” and others.

Sultana Al-Tarab and the granddaughter of the founder of the recitation

Sharifa Fadel, whose real name is Fawqia Mahmoud Ahmed Nada, is one of the golden generation singers. She was born in Cairo in the late 1930s. She inherited the sweetness and strength of her voice from her grandfather, Sheikh Ahmed Nada, the founder of the Modern Recitation School and one of the greatest reciters of the Noble Qur’an. She trained from a young age in religious chanting and music.

Sharifa Fadel lived in Cairo with her mother after her parents separated, so her mother supported her technically, despite her father's objection.

Because of the sweetness of her voice, she became famous, so she sang in front of King Farouk, who praised her voice at that time.

After her fame, Sharifa Fadel revived the wedding of Hoda Abdel Nasser - the daughter of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser - and sang to her, "Congratulations to you, my fans." She was also constantly present at the concerts of the late President Muhammad Anwar Sadat, and presented him with the song "Asmar, Samara, Abu." Funny".

Sharifa Fadel's first appearance on the screen was when she was young, when a producer asked her mother to participate Sharifa in the movie "The Father" in the late forties, then the movie "My Children, Goodbye, My Love", after which she joined the acting institute, but she was accredited as a listener only because of her young age, then Later she was adopted as a singer on the radio.

Sharifa Fadel.. A rich singing history

The late Egyptian singer Sharifa Fadel was able to achieve a different status for herself and far from the stars of the golden generation at that time, because of the sweetness and strength of her voice. Nancy Ajram in her concerts, and the religious song "Tamm El Badr Badry".

Also among her songs are “Amanat Ma Takharni Ya Bakra”, “Ah Min Patience” and “Falah and the Night”, and other songs in which she collaborated with the great composers of that era, such as Munir Murad, Riyadh Al-Sunbati, Mahmoud Al-Sharif, Muhammad Al-Muji, Baligh Hamdi and Sayed Makkawi.

And she obtained greater cinematic opportunities after her first marriage to the artist, Al-Sayyid Badir, and she presented films such as “Haret Al-Saqqayyin”, “Ghaziyeh from Bani Ghazi” and “Love and the Price”.

Sharifa Fadel lived a painful dramatic situation when her son, the pilot Sayyid al-Sayyid Badir, passed away in the October 1973 war, and despite the severe shock she suffered, she asked her friend, the poet Nabila Qandil, to write a song for her about the mother of the martyr, so she wrote for her the song "Mother of the Hero." It was composed by Ali Ismail, and indeed I went the next day to record the song, which achieved great success at that time.

During the nineties of the last century, Sharifa Fadel decided to stay out of the limelight, especially after her husband, Major General Ali Zaki, was paralyzed, so she devoted herself to caring for him and lived with her son, Tamer.