Halim el-Roumi
Halim el-Roumi was a singer and composer from Lebanon.
Born in Tyre, to a family of Palestinian migrants. He began his amateur artistic career in 1935. Later, as a radio chief in the Near East, he discovered the singer Fairuz. He composed her music, introduced her to the choir of Radio Liban and was the originator of her stage name. El-Roumi also became director of Radio libanaise.
He is famous for composing the poem La Volonté de vivre by the Tunisian poet Aboul-Qacem Echebbi for the Arab singer Souad Mohamed. He is the father of Majida Al Roumi.
