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  "en": "Abdel Halim Hafez — English Wikipedia"
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  "ar": "مقالة ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية عن عبد الحليم حافظ؛ تُستخدم لوقائع الكيان فقط. توثّق يتْمه ونشأته في القاهرة، وانطلاقته الإذاعية سنة 1953، وأغانيه وأفلامه، ومرضه ووفاته في لندن سنة 1977 ودفنه في القاهرة.",
  "en": "English Wikipedia article on Abdel Halim Hafez; used for entity facts only. It records his orphaning and Cairo upbringing, his 1953 radio breakthrough, his songs and films, his illness, his death in London in 1977 and his burial in Cairo."
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  "title": "Abdel Halim Hafez",
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  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     2026,
     9,
     30
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  "publisher": "Wikipedia (English), revision 1377724208 of 30 September 2026",
  "URL": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Halim_Hafez",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Pointer for entity facts only (Wikipedia broad rule, AGENTS.md): a fact is used only where the article cites a source for it. Read in full on 25 October 2026. Covers: his birth as Abdel Halim Ali Shabana on 21 June 1929 at al-Hilwat in the Sharqia Governorate; his mother's death days after his birth and his father's within the year, and his upbringing by an aunt and uncle in Cairo; his brother Ismail as his first teacher; the Arabic Music Institute at fourteen and teaching posts at Tanta and al-Mahalla; the 1953 radio debut as a last-minute substitute, heard by Hafez Abdel Wahab, whose name he took; collaborations with Mohamed Abdel Wahab ('Ahwak', 'Nebtedi Minen el Hekaya', 'Fatet Ganbena'), Mohamed Hamza, Kamal al-Taweel, Baligh Hamdi, Salah Jahin and Abdel Rahman el-Abnoudi; more than three hundred songs and sixteen films, among them Dalilah, the Middle East's first colour film; the co-founding of the Soutelphan production company with Abdel Wahab and Magdi el-Amroussi; the patriotic repertoire for the 1952 revolution, Nasser, the aftermath of 1967 ('Aadah al-Nahar') and Sadat after 1973, sung again by crowds in 2011; schistosomiasis contracted at eleven, diagnosed in 1956, and death from cirrhosis at King's College Hospital, London, on 30 March 1977; the hospital he built in 1969; his funeral in Cairo, attended by tens of thousands, with reported suicides among fans (reported as such); burial at the Al Bassatin Cemetery, Cairo; the interpolation of 'Khosara' in Jay-Z's 'Big Pimpin'' (1999) and the 2019 hologram concert with Carole Samaha. The article names no religion for him.",
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 "updated": "2026-10-25",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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