# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/riadh-sombati
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:00:38.735Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/riadh-sombati"
name: "Riadh Sombati"
slug: "riadh-sombati"
description: "Riad Mohamed El Sunbati, also written as Riad Sonbati or Riadh Sonbati was a 20th-century Egyptian composer and musician who was considered an icon of Egyptian Music. He composed 539 works for the Egyptian Opera, operettas and Egyptian cinema. He also composed religious music and wrote lyrics for Arab singers, among them Umm Kulthum, Fairouz, Asmahan, Warda Al-Jazairia, Najat Al Saghira, Mounira El Mahdeya, Fayza Ahmed, Saleh Abdel Hai, and Aziza Galal."
tagline: "Egyptian composer and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Riad_Sunbati.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1906-11-30"
deathDate: "1981-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.82
  momentum:             1.308327751730297
  historical:           11.98234
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  223
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2578226/"
    handle:    "nm2578226"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/908241"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%8A"
    title: "رياض السنباطي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%89"
    title: "رياض السنباطى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B6_%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B7%DB%8C"
    title: "ریاض سنباطی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riad_Al_Sunbati"
    title: "Riad Al Sunbati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riad_Al_Sunbati"
    title: "Riad Al Sunbati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riad_Al_Sunbati"
    title: "Riad Al Sunbati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B6_%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B7%DB%8C"
    title: "ریاض سنباطی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riad_Al_Sunbati"
    title: "Riad Al Sunbati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%D7%93_%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%90%D7%98%D7%99"
    title: "ריאד אל סונבאטי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%B4"
    title: "Аль-Сунбати, Риад"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riad_Al_Sunbati"
    title: "Riad Al Sunbati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyad_es-Sunbati"
    title: "Riyad es-Sunbati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b228d440-75a6-4cb9-a76f-13d83010ab60"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2384166"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump