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Halim el-Roumi

Halim el-Roumi

Musical artist

Halim el-Roumi (حليم الرومي) (July 1919 – 1983) was a Lebanese singer and composer.

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Born in Tyre, Lebanon to Lebanese parents, he began his amateur artistic career in 1935, when he was in Haifa, Palestine. Later, as a radio chief first in Haifa and then in Lebanon, he discovered the singer Fairuz.[1] He composed her music, introduced her to the choir of Radio Liban and was the originator 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 is the father of Majida Al Roumi.

References

  1. [1]
    "Fairouz et le Liban (Arte.tv)". Archived from the original on 18 March 2010.
  2. [2]
    chanson, Le Hall de la. "Le Hall de la chanson". Le Hall de la chanson.
  3. [3]
    (in French) Ali Ouertani, "La poésie chantée de Chebbi", La Presse de Tunisie, 1 March 2009[permanent dead link]


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