Saudi Arabia is commemorating the 30th anniversary of the death of music icon Baligh Hamdi on Thursday, November 9.
The show is set to be held at the Abu Bakr Salem Stage in the Boulevard City, Riyadh.
The event will feature a lineup of top-notch singers such as Angham, Saber Rebai, Assala, Majid al-Muhandis, Nancy Ajram, and Talal Salamah.
They are set to present a selection of Hamdi's remarkable and iconic pieces.
Hamdi, born on October 7, 1931, was an Egyptian composer who created and composed many hit songs for several Arab singers, especially during the 1960s and 1970s. He composed Warda's most famous songs and they got married for a long period.
Born Baligh Abdel Hamid Hamdi Morsi in the Shubra district of Cairo. His father was a professor of physics at King Fuad I University (now Cairo University).
He learned to play the violin at age nine, and the oud two or three years later. Hamdi took music lessons with a variety of teachers throughout childhood and teenage years. He became a professional musician in 1954 at age 22. Immediately prior to that, he had been a law student but chose not to complete the studies for the law degree.
He started his musician career as singer. But very soon he turned to composing, and his compositions got good acceptance in the mid-1950s.
In the late 1950s, the then-famous Umm Kulthum presented his composition "Hob Eih" and it was a hit. Some other of Baligh Hamdi's early compositional successes include "Why no", sung by Faydah Kamel, the song "Ma Tehbneesh Be El Shakl Da (Don't love me like that)" performed by Fayza Ahmed, and the song "Tkhounoh ([How do you] Betray [my heart])" by Abdel Halim Hafez.
For the next two decades he was by far one of the most popular, successful, and productive composers not only in Egypt but within the entire region. His fame and legacy stay very strong in Egypt till this day.
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