Sākna Bēh

Biography

Sakna, known as Sakna Bey, was a nineteenth-century Egyptian singer.

Qustandi Rizq places her prominence in the reigns of Abbas I and Said Pasha and says the public gave her the nickname Bey. His 1936 history reports that Almaz joined her troupe and learned singing there before establishing an independent ensemble. Its accounts of rivalry and personal feelings are retrospective historical testimony rather than direct records of motives. The chapter supplies no birth date and places her death under Ismail without a year.