Aṭrash, Farīd

LC control no.	n 91011930
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	ML410.A817 Biography
Personal name heading	Aṭrash, Farīd *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Al Atrash, Farid Al Atrache, Farid Atrache, Farid Al El Atrache, Farid Atrache, Farid El Elatrache, Farid El Atrashe, Fareed أطرش، فريد فريد الاطرش
Associated country	Egypt Syria
Birth date	1915
Death date	19741226
Place of birth	Suwaydāʼ (Syria)
Place of death	Beirut (Lebanon)
Affiliation	Arab Music Institute (Cairo, Egypt)
Profession or occupation	Singers Composers Arrangers (Musicians) Oud players
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	His Ḥayātuh wa-aghānīh mudawwanah bi-al-nūtah al-mūsīqīyah, 198-?- : t.p. (Farīd al-Aṭrash) Ramzy, H. Samya : the best of Farid Al Atrash, p1993. Bulbul afandī, c1982: container (Farid El Atrache) New Grove dict. of mus. WWW site, Sept. 10, 2004: Atrash, Farid al- (b. al-Qrayya, Syria, 18 Oct 1915; d. Beirut, 26 Dec 1974; Syrian singer, composer, ūd player, film actor and producer) Farīd al-Aṭrash-- 25 sannah, p2000: disc label (Farid El Atrache [in rom.]) container (Farid Elatrache [in rom.]) Atrash, F. Sing with me [SR] 196-: label (Fareed El Atrash, vocals) Visini, M. Secretly famous, p2009: container (Farid Al Atrache) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 2, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Atrash, Farid al-; popular singer, composer, arranger; born in 1915 in Suwayda, Syria; enrolled in the Arab Music Institute, Cairo, Egypt; studied oud with the master musician Riad al-Sunbati; performed in Cairo's theater district and in the cabaret owned by Badi'a al-Masabni, the greatest belly dancer of the early twentieth century and a leading impresario of the era; gained notoriety primarily for his oud playing and his compositions; made thirty-one films (1941-1974); mastered the Egyptian dialect, and was embraced also as an Egyptian popular icon; died 26 December 1974 in Beirut, Lebanon)