Halim el-Roumi

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

Born in Tyre, Lebanon to Lebanese parents , he began his amateur artistic career in 1935, when he was in Haifa, Palestine.

[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.

In the early 1940s, he began working in the Near East Broadcasting Station in Jafa as a singer, composer, and musician.

[5] In July 1949, he married Mary Lotfy, an Egyptian woman,[4] possibly of Palestinian descent.