Abu Bakr Khayrat was born in April 1910 in Essaida Zeinab district where he lived his early years in a cultural, artistic house full of sophisticated cultural and artistic activities and Arab music.

He listened to the eastern Arab music in his childhood, and then he studied the piano and western music in France.

His father Mahmoud Khayrat was a cultured man who studied the French literature, composed poetry, drew paintings and practiced photographing. He was also a politician where he took part in the 1919 Revolution.

In addition, he adored the Arab music and studied the lute at the hands of Ibrahim Al Kabany for a long time.

The house of Mahmoud Khayrat -in which Abu Bakr Khayrat lived- was the destination of a group of artists who used to talk about music, art and culture among whom were Mustafa Rida, Hassan Anwar, Saleh Abdel Hay, Sayed Darweesh, Muhammad Abdel Wahab and Umm Kolthoum.

At the age of five, Abu Bakr Khayrat showed a great musical talent, so his father asked the famous musician Ahmed Dadah to teach him the theories of the Arab music and the violin.

In addition, his mother decided that he should have been taught western music, thus he spent long time in studying it until he returned from his scholarship in France in 1935.

In 1930, Abu Bakr Khayrat received the architecture diploma from Cairo University, and he was appointed in the Ministry of Works.

During his scholarship, he got a Diploma of City Planning Institute from Paris University.

He kept working in the Ministry of Works until he resigned in 1947 when he established his own office for engineering. From 1935 to 1944, Abu Bakr Khayrat wrote down a number of musical compositions.

In 1944, he took part in establishing an association whose goals were modernizing the Egyptian music, spreading the musical culture in Egypt and Egyptianize the world musical works.

During the 1952 Revolution, Abu Bakr Khayrat spent his best years where he assumed several leading musical posts in Egypt where he was appointed as a member of the Supreme Council for Arts and Social Care and the chairman of the Higher Council for Music (Conservatoire).

On 24 October 1963, Abu Bakr Khayrat died in his office in the Conservatoire.