What Has Egyptain Singer Angham Done Lately?

Angham has been a star literary since the day she was born, her father took her under his wings and brought her up the music appreciator she is. She has a great voice and had great hits in the span of her career. The moment she dipped her toes in pop, she sort of lost her way.

But in all fairness, she is the pre-internet diva, what has Angham done since 2000? 2000, the year the internet starting becoming popular in Arabia, and Angham has been sort of an average singer at best. The biggest news she has generated in that period is her personal struggle for divorce from her Kuwaiti husband. At times if you watch he4 interviews, she sounds combative and angry. Maybe she thinks the media is picking on her once again as they picked on her during her struggle with her late father.

So it has been 11 years and in a way Angham has consumed all the good name of hers that she has made press the 2000. Can you recall one great song of hers that sticks with you? I really cannot. On the other hand, she has performed a number of mediocre songs and even terrible ones. She is now branching out into making music in the Gulf dialect. How will that go? We have to find out later this year.

Now, Angham is a great voice, she will never lose that, and no one will take anything form her accomplishments, but she needs something new, something that will stick and remind us why she is the great lady of Egyptian Tarab songs. But she does not really need to prove anything, she can make all the money she wants by doing duet with singers in the Gulf who want the honor to share the stage with her.


Of course the risk of doing nothing is grave, energetic voices like Sherine, Amal Maher and to a lesser extent younger voices (Omnya Suiliman, and Heba Yousef, Reham Abdel Ghafour) are bringing their A game to show what they are made of.

دويتو أنغام ومحمد عبدو: معاد بدري