Abdel Halim Hafez, a late Egyptian singer and actor (June 21, 1929 – March 30, 1977), his real name is Abdel Halim Ali Shabana.
Biography and life story of celebrity in English.
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Name in English: Abdel Halim Hafez
Name in Arabic: عبد الحليم حافظ
Full real name: Abdel Halim Ali Shabana
Nickname: The Brown Nightingale
Nationality: Egypt
Language: Arabic, Egyptian dialect
Religion: Islam
Date of birth: June 21, 1929
Place of birth: Sharkia, Egypt
Date of death: March 30, 1977
Place of death: London, United Kingdom
Cause of death: Hepatitis C virus infection
Age: 47 years 9 months and 9 days (at death 1977)
Astrological Sign: Cancer
Profession: Singer, Actor
Genre: Arabic music
Musical Instruments: The Abawah Instrument
Years of activity: 1951-1977
Brothers: Ismail, Muhammad, Aliyah
Biography, Life story
Abdel Halim Hafez was born on June 21, 1929 in the village of Halawat, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. He is the youngest of four brothers, Ismail, Muhammad and Aliyah. His mother died days after his birth, and before Abdel Halim completed his first year, his father died, so that he could live as an orphan on the father’s side, as he lived on the mother’s side before, to live after that in the house of his uncle, Hajj Metwally Amasha. He was playing with his cousins in the village’s canal, and from there he contracted schistosomiasis, which destroyed his life. He once said, “I am the son of fate.” He performed sixty-one surgeries during his life. He is the fourth son and the eldest of his brothers is Ismail Shabanah, who was a singer and teacher of music at the Ministry of Education. After he matured a little, he joined the book of Sheikh Ahmad. Since the entry of the brown nightingale to the school, his great love for music was evident until he became the head of the anthems band in his school. Since then, he has been trying to enter the field of singing because of his passion for it.
He joined the Arab Music Institute, the Composition Department in 1943, when he met the artist Kamal Al-Taweel, where Abdel Halim was a student in the Composition Department, and Kamal in the Singing and Voices Department. He was a music teacher in Tanta, then Zagazig, and finally in Cairo, then he resigned from teaching and then joined the Radio Musical Ensemble, playing the Abawah instrument in 1950.
In 1951, he met a friend and companion, Mr. Majdi Al-Amrousi, at the house of the radio director at that time, Fahmy Omar. The brown nightingale Abdel Halim Shabana discovered the great broadcaster Hafez Abdel Wahhab, who allowed him to use his name “Hafez” instead of Shabana.
On June 18, 1953 Abdel Halim revived the City Lights concert in Andalus Park in what is considered to be his first official party, which was also the first official celebration of the proclamation of the Republic.
Abdel Halim presented more than two hundred and thirty songs. Majdi Al-Amrousi, a friend of Abdel Halim Hafez, collected his songs in a book called “Pasket of Love and Patriotism… the complete record of everything that the brown nightingale Abdel Halim Hafez sang.” It included most of what Abdel Halim Hafez sang. and what will follow is part of his songs.
The brown nightingale suffered from cirrhosis of the liver caused by schistosomiasis, and this cirrhosis was the cause of his death in 1977. The first time the brown nightingale was known of this disease was in 1956 AD when he suffered the first bleeding in the stomach, and at that time he was invited to break the fast during the month of Ramadan with his friend Mustafa Al-Arif.
He had a private secretary, Ms. Suhair Muhammad Ali, who worked with him since 1972 and accompanied him in all the hospitals in which he was hospitalized.
Hospitals where he lay abroad: Ibn Sina Hospital in Rabat (Morocco), and in England: St. James Hurst Hospital, London Clinic, Versing Home, Kings College Hospital (the hospital where he died), “Salptrade” (Paris).
He died on March 30, 1977 in London – United Kingdom, at the age of forty-seven years.
List of works – Discography
Songs
Why do you count the days, Shukri Sarhan, say goodbye to me once, where were we, as long as longing, repentance, oh clear heart, in a day in a month in a year, a promise, a meeting, a message from under the water, her lover, the reader of the cup, the desire came, my love from be.
In addition to emotional songs, Abdel Halim also sang patriotic songs and religious prayers
List of works – Filmography
Films
In 1955, he witnessed the screening of four complete films by The Nightingale, in what was described as his golden year in cinema. He presented in the cinema sixteen films, which are:
Melody of Loyalty, Our Sweet Days, Nights of Love, Days and Nights (1955), Date of Love, Delilah (1956), Girls of the Day, The Empty Pillow, The Boy of My Dreams (1957), Love Street (1958), A Love Tale (1959), Girls and Summer (1959). 1960), A Day in My Life (1961), Sins (1962), Idol of the Masses (1967), My Father on the Tree (1969).
Series
Abdel Halim starred in the radio series “Please do not understand me quickly” in 1973, and it is the only series in which Abdel Halim participated as a hero for the episodes, accompanied by Naglaa Fathi and Adel Imam, the story of Mahmoud Awad and directed by Muhammad Alwan.