Abdel Halim Hafez
21 June 1929 – 30 March 1977
Abdel Halim Hafez was an Egyptian singer and film actor, one of the central figures of Arabic popular music in the mid-twentieth century. Orphaned in infancy, he trained at the Arab Music Institute in Cairo and rose to fame through radio broadcasts in the early 1950s, later starring in a series of musical films. He died in London of complications of schistosomiasis contracted in childhood.
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Life events
Born Abdel Halim Ali Shabana in a village in the Nile Delta.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLost both parents in early childhood and was brought up by an aunt and uncle in Cairo.
Trained as a musician, specialising in the oboe.
Taught music in state schools before turning to performance full time.
Broadcast performances brought him national recognition as a singer.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBegan a parallel career as a star of Egyptian musical cinema.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEstablished the label with Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Magdi al-Amroussi.
One of the extended concert songs that defined his later repertoire.
Died of liver failure caused by schistosomiasis contracted in childhood.
Source: en.wikipedia.org