Halim el-Roumi
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Halim el-Roumi (حليم الرومي) (July 1919 – 1983) was a singer and composer of Palestinian origin.
Born in Lebanon to Lebanese parents, he began his amateur artistic career in 1935. Later, as a radio chief in the Near East (Mahattat Ach-Charq Al Adna), he discovered the singer Fairuz[1]. He composed her music, introduced her to the choir of Radio Liban and was the origin of her stage name[2]. El-Roumi also became director of Radio libanaise[2].
He is famous for composing the poem La Volonté de vivre (إرادة الحياة) by the Tunisian poet Aboul-Qacem Echebbi for the Arab singer Souad Mohamed[3].
He was the father of Majida El Roumi.
References
- ↑ (in French) Fairouz et le Liban (Arte.tv)
- 1 2 (in French) Biography of Fairuz (Hall de la chanson)
- ↑ (in French) Ali Ouertani, "La poésie chantée de Chebbi", La Presse de Tunisie, 1st March 2009
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