On the 45th Anniversary of the Death of "The Brown Nightingale"
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Abdel Halim Hafez was born on June 21, 1929, his real name is Abdel Halim Ali Shabana. He was born in the village of Al-Helwat in Sharkia Governorate, the youngest of four brothers, Ismail, Muhammad and Alia. His mother died a few days after his birth, and before Abdel Halim completed his first year, his father died in order to live as an orphan on the father’s side as he lived on from the mother’s side before, to live after that in the house of his uncle, Hajj Metwally.
Andalib joined the Institute of Arabic Music, Department of Composition in 1943. When he met the artist Kamal Al-Taweel, Abdel Halim was a student in the Composition Department, and Kamal was in the Department of Singing and Voices, and they studied together at the Institute until their graduation in 1948.
He was nominated to travel on a government mission abroad, but he canceled his trip and worked for 4 years as a music teacher in Tanta, then Zagazig, and finally in Cairo.
Among his most important lyrical works, O Khali Al-Qalb, in a day, in a month, in a year, was a promise, a meeting, which is the first private song that Abdel Halim Hafez recorded for the radio, a message from under the water, her lover.
He died on Wednesday, March 30, 1977 in London at the age of forty-seven years, and the main cause of his death was the contaminated blood that was transferred to him, carrying with him hepatitis C virus, which could not be treated with cirrhosis of the liver resulting from schistosomiasis from childhood.
He was also examined in London, and there was no cure for this disease at the time, and some opinions indicated that the direct cause of his death was the scratching of the endoscope that led to his intestines, which led to bleeding. Doctors tried to prevent the bleeding by placing a balloon to swallow it to prevent blood leakage, but Abdel Halim died and could not swallow the balloon medical.
The audience was so saddened that some girls from Egypt committed suicide after learning about this news. His body was buried in a solemn funeral that Egypt did not know, except for the funeral of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the late artist Umm Kulthum, whether in the number of people participating in the funeral, which amounted to more than 2.5 million people, or in the sincere emotions of people at the time of the funeral.
