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Celebs NameOum
GenderFemale
BirthdateApril 18, 1978
DayApril 18
Year1978
NationalityMorocco
Age41 years
Birth SignAries
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Oum Biography

Oum El Ghaït BentelSahrawy (Arabic: أم الغيث بنت الصحراوي ‎), better known as Oum (Arabic: أوم ‎, born 18 April 1978 in Casablanca), is a Moroccan singer-songwriter. Considered an ambassador of Moroccan culture, she mixes hassani, jazz, gospel, soul, afrobeat and Sufi music influences in her songs.

In 1996, she entered the National School of Architecture in Rabat. She pursued her studies there until graduation in 2002.

In 1998, Oum did her first attempts with hip-hop and RnB with Djo Catangana, a producer and creator of the French hip hop collective Mafia Trece.

In 2002, she was noticed by Philippe Delmas who invited her to Paris. For two years, she alternated recording sessions and concerts in Casablanca with the Brotherwood band. In 2004, she ended up her Parisian experience.

Her first album Lik ‘Oum appeared in Casablanca in May 2009.

Whowa, means “him” in dialectical Moroccan Darija in the first single from her second album Sweerty -means luck in Moroccan dialectical Arabic (Darija), was released with a video clip in January 2010. In July 2012, she released Harguin a collaboration with Blitz the Ambassador on the theme of illegal immigration from sub-Saharan Africa. Sweerty is released in 2012.

Oum was invited to the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on the occasion of International Women’s Day to give a concert on 7 March 2012.

She was invited in June 2013 to take part in the Gnaoua World Music Festival in Essaouira (Morocco).

In September 2015, she released her fourth album: Zarabi which means “carpets” in Moroccan Darija and it is a tribute to the carpet weavers of the village of M’Hamid El Ghizlane. She wrote and co-directed it with Mathis Haug. Yacir Rami accompanied her on the Oud and Rhani Krija on the percussions.

Her song Taragalte from the album Soul of Morocco was used in the 2018 movie Beirut (film).

What's Oum Net Worth 2024

Net Worth (2024) $1 Million (Approx.)
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