Mohamed Fawzi

Composer

Mohamed Fawzi was born in Tanta, Gharbia Governorate, Egypt on August 15th, 1918 and is the Composer. At the age of 48, Mohamed Fawzi biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
August 15, 1918
Nationality
Egypt
Place of Birth
Tanta, Gharbia Governorate, Egypt
Death Date
Oct 20, 1966 (age 48)
Zodiac Sign
Leo
Profession
Actor, Composer, Singer
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Mohamed Fawzi Career

Arriving in Cairo in 1938, he at first made ends meet working in theatre companies and nightclubs, including those of Badia Masabni and Fatima Rushdi, and then the "Egyptian National Theatre" where his path to fame started to kick.

Fascinated by music, he was an aficionado in particular of pioneering singer-songwriter Sayed Darwish. An initial foray as understudy for Ibrahim Hamouda, in a production by the Egyptian Troupe for Acting and Music Darwish’s operetta Shahrazad (Scheherezade) with direction by Zaki Talimatt and an orchestra led by Mohammed Hassan El shougai, was a failure. However, Rushdi gave him a second chance to work in her group as actor, composer, and singer. In 1944, Youssef Wahbi cast Fawzi in a small part in the film Seif El gallad, in which he sang two songs of Darwish on the condition of dropping the Habs Abdel-Al Haw from his name. The role brought Fawzi to the attention of director Mohammed Karim, who cast him as the lead in the 1946 film "Ashab El Saada (Happiness Owners)" alongside Suleiman Naguib and singer Ragaa Abdou. This time Fawzi was the one given a condition, namely plastic surgery for his slightly flat philtrum. The success of the film gave Fawzi the funds to start his eponymous production company in 1947.

Egyptian Radio, which had turned Fawzi down as a staff singer, broadcast his film songs nevertheless. After the Egyptian revolution of 1952, he was put into heavy rotation with songs such as the patriotic “بلدي أحببتك يا بلدي” (“My Country, I Love You, My Country”) and the religious “يا تواب يا غفور” (“At Tawwaab (Oh Contrite), Oh Forgiving”) and “إلهي ما أعدلك” (“My God, What Do You Do?”). His children’s songs from the movie Moegezet Al Samaa, including “ماما زمانها جاية” (“Mama, Her Time Is Here”) and “ذهب الليل” ("Zahab El Lailou", “The Night Is Gone”), were also popular then. He participated in the government’s 1953 charitable donation drives throughout Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt known as the “Mercy Trains,” along with other celebrities (e.g., Madiha Yousri, Emad Hamdy, Shadia, Farid Shawqi, and Huda Sultan), to say nothing of impromptu concerts in hospitals and social care centers.

Fawzi wrote many songs for himself to sing in his films. He also composed for other singers of his time, including Mohamed Abd El Mottaleb, Leila Mourad, Nazik, Huda Sultan, and Nagah Salam.

In 1956, two Algerian officials went to Egypt and met him at the headquarters of the Voice of the Arabs radio station, a Pan-Arabist radio station founded under the rule of Egypt's former president Gamal Abd El Nasser, to commission the Algerian anthem. When the head of the music office department, Mohamed Aboul Fotouh, remarked that a “light music” composer was unsuited to writing a national anthem, Fawzi rose to the challenge and wrote the one still in use.

In 1958, Fawzi founded his own label, Sono Cairo. Their price of 35 piasters an album beat the foreign majors’ 90-piaster fare. Hence, he was able to command sessions with greats of the era, including Umm Kulthum and Mohamed Abdel Wahab. The successful business was nationalized by the government in 1961, and though he was given a salary of £E100 to run it, he hardly got the chance and was marginalized within it. He fell into a depression and died of leukemia on October 20, 1966. Ahmed El-Samahi writes:

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