Dalilah (belly dancer)

Dalilah (Arabic: دليلة, Dalīla) also Delia Turina (born as Adelaida Angulo Agramunt), (7 July 1936 – 17 September 2001) was a Spanish belly dancer.

From the age of 3 she began her career as a dancer with instructors like Miss Karen Taft (Ballet), La Quica and Regla Ortega (Flamenco), José Luis Udaeta (Spanish Classical Dance) and Luisa Perice (Bolero School).

Her popularity was such that during one of her visits to Italy, she was asked to perform at a private gathering held by Federico Fellini for his film “La dolce vita”.

[7] After her European tour, she returned to Beirut to perform at the Hotel Phoenicia and the Casino du Liban, where she met her husband Paul King, a popular singer from London.

[4][8][12][13] Between 1977 and 1978, Dalilah organised along with the Egyptian Ministry of Culture “Belly dancers dream come true”,[14] the very first ground-breaking belly dance tour to Cairo, where American women were offered authentic oriental dance and culture from both prominent contemporary dancers, as well as from legendary professionals such as Tahia Carioca, Soheir Zaki and Samia Gamal.