Ezzat abou ouf biography of nancy

The funeral for Ezzat Abo-Aouf, the gifted Egyptian musician and actor who passed away on 1 July 2019 at a Cairo hospital, was held last evening, and was widely attended by a host of Egypt’s public figures and luminaries from the music and film scenes. Mr Abou-Aouf, who died at age 71, had been suffering from heart and liver problems.

Abou-Aouf was born in August 1948 in the upscale Cairo district of Zamalek. His father, Ahmad Shafik Abo-Auf, was a prominent composer, and was dean of Cairo’s Institute of Arabic Music. The junior Abou-Aouf studied medicine and practised it after graduation before he switched careers and ventured into music. In the 1970s, he formed, together with his four sisters: Mona, Mervat, Manal and Maha, a musical ensemble in which they called ‘4M’. The ensemble present songs that quickly became among the best loved by Egyptian audiences, because of their exuberance and innovative, lively harmony that mixed old and new, also because of the appealing lyrics Ezzat abou ouf biography of nancy sinatra!