Add/Update Information: Mohamed El Bakkar - Music Composer

A Lebanese singer, actor, and composer, born in Lebanon, on January 25, 1915, to a father who worked as a customs officer in Beirut. He studied at the Islamic College in Beirut. While he was in Lebanon, he participated in a silent French movie, but his father took him away from the city, where he worked as a school principal in Choueifat. When Talaat Harb heard him singing in Lebanon, he summoned him to Egypt, where he joined the National Ensemble and participated in many plays. Mohamed El Bakkar then joined the Schultz Institute of Music for 3 years and worked in the opera, composing the music for "The Death of Cleopatra and Cambyses" by the poet Ahmed Shawqi, but with the outbreak of WWII, he was forced to focus on folk music due to financial constraints. El Bakkar was famous for his comedic roles, and he is best known for My Heart and My Sword (1947), Lady Fairooz (1951), and Come Say Hi (1951), and with the outbreak of the Egyptian revolution of 1952, he presented his last movie The Rule of Time (1953), after which he moved to the USA and resided in Brooklyn, New York, where he recorded and produced a set of records for oriental music and acted and sang in Broadway theaters. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage, on September 8, 1959, at the age of 44.