Today.. death anniversary "Music major" Muhammad Fawzi
Musician Muhammad Fawzi Abdel-Al died on this day, October 20, 1966. He was born on August 18, 1918 in Tanta.
He learned music and singing since he was a student at Tanta Primary School, and began singing at birthdays, nights, and weddings. He did not complete his studies at the Fouad I Institute of Music in Cairo, where Badia Masabni tempted him to work with her, and at the age of twenty When he was young, he took the radio exam as a singer and composer, but he failed as a singer and passed as a composer.
After 6 years of working with Badia Masabni’s band, Youssef Wehbe asked him to play a small role in the movie “The Sword of the Executioner.” He chose the name “Mohamed Fawzi” for him. Then he went on to star with director Mohamed Karim in his first starring role in the movie “The Excellencies,” and the movie was an overwhelming success until it became a box-office star.
The artist Mohamed Fawzy presented several wonderful films with his late wife, Madiha Yousry, where they got married and gave birth to their late son, “Amr.” Who was subjected to a painful accident that made her withdraw from the world even after 10 years, the age of their marriage. They lived as friends, and even after the separation they made films together: “Eve’s Daughters, A Kiss in Lebanon, Fatima, Marika and Rachel, What a Man”.
And during his film career, which exceeded thirty films, Mohamed Fawzi shared the lead opposite Stars of his time, including Sabah, Shadia, Faten Hamama and others. Mohamed Fawzi was the first to sing to the child through two children’s songs, where he wrote immortality for himself after his departure. The song “Mama, Her Time Is Coming” was and still is the most popular song among children, especially in the sixties. It is considered the first video song on Egyptian television, sung and composed by the artist Mohamed Fawzi in 1965. The song “The Night Has Gone and the Dawn Has Come” also won the title. The same fame, He also composed the national anthem of Algeria.
Among his most famous songs are “The moon’s money is his money, fly between us, my heart, that is, by God” Fawzi is also considered the first to present a color film in Egyptian cinema “Love is in Danger in 1951” preceding the movie Delilah. For the nightingale. Fawzi founded the Misr Phone record production company in 1958, and it produced songs for major singers of that era, such as Umm Kulthum, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, and others. Then setbacks began to occur for Fawzi, specifically three years after the founding of the company, as the company was nationalized in 1961 and he was appointed as its director with a salary of 100 pounds. This caused him severe depression that prompted him to travel abroad, and illness prevented him from going to Egypt again until after his death. He got married. Fawzi was married 3 times. The first marriage was in 1943 to Mrs. Hedaya, with whom he had 3 children. Then he separated from her in 1952 and married the artist Madiha Yousra. Then he separated from her and married the artist Karima in 1960, with whom he had his youngest daughter, and this marriage remained until his death.
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