[4] Fawzi attended elementary school in Tanta, Egypt, where he was a quick study on music with his father's friend, firefighter Mahmoud El Kharbaty, serving as initial tutor.

El Kharbaty brought Fawzi along to sing at birthdays, nights, and weddings, where he was influenced by the songs of Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Umm Kulthum.

After graduating from preparatory school, he joined the King Fuad I Institute of Music in Cairo, but he gave up his studies two years later to work in the nightclub of sisters Ratiba and Ensaf Rushdie.

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.

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.

His children's songs from the movie Moegezet Al Samaa, including "ماما زمانها جاية" ("Mom Is About to Arrive") 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.

He also composed for other singers of his time, including Mohamed Abd El Mottaleb, Leila Mourad, Nazik, Huda Sultan, and Nagah Salam.

He sang other composers' material in some of his films, including in Qabelni Ya Abi, Nargis, Thawrat El-Madinah, and Leila, Bint El-Shatie, while Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Farid al-Atrash wrote all their own music.

The nationalization of the label was perhaps the greatest shock of his life, and his health deteriorated from there on as international doctors struggled to diagnose him.