Halim el-Roumi

Halim el-Roumi () (July 1919 – 1983) was a singer and composer from Lebanon.
Born in Tyre, Lebanon. He began his amateur artistic career in 1935. Later, as a radio chief in the Near East (Mahattat Ach-Charq Al Adna), he discovered the singer Fairuz. He composed her music, introduced her to the choir of Radio Liban and was the originator of her stage name. El-Roumi also became director of Radio libanaise.
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. He is the father of Majida Al Roumi.