Born in 1918 in Tanta, Fawzi surprised his secondary schoolmates by composing poems from the Arabic text book in a way that drew admiration from students and teachers. He headed to Cairo where he joined the Arab Music Institute (AMI), starting a new stage of suffering in his life.

Fawzi made a qualitative shift in composing as well as in singing. All his contemporaries admitted that he foreran his age by 50 years at least. He skillfully made use of foreign music without literal adaptation. He died in 1966 after long suffering from disease.