Zakariyya Ahmad’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Musician and composer
Was Musician
Composer
Singer
From Egypt
Type Music
Gender male
Birth

1896, Faiyum, Egypt

Death

1961, Cairo, Egypt
(aged 65 years)

Zakariyya Ahmad (Arabic: زكريا أحمد‎; born 1896 in Faiyum, Egypt –1961) was an Egyptian musician and composer. He sang mainly religious songs as a member of several groups from 1919 to 1929, having studied recitation of the Qur’an under the well-known Egyptian Quranic reciter Mohamed Salama, but later expanded his repertory into popular music and especially patriotic ones.

He composed many pieces in a traditional Egyptian folk style. His works include solo pieces and film scores, and in 1931 he began composing sentimental and Egyptian patriotic songs for Umm Kulthum, beginning in 1931. He also began writing operettas in 1924, eventually producing a total of 56 operettas and 1,070 songs.

His father was Egyptian and his mother was Turkish, and it was they who instilled in him his love of music since young age.

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