He said Riad Kasri The son of the late Warda told “The Seventh Day”, “I have never hated Baligh Hamdi, and I have never considered him a stepfather because he was not a father to me, but rather for a husband who loved my mother, and their love story was very strong, with evidence that they got married, and their marriage relationship was a rich relationship. On the technical level, and no one can deny that at all, and I have never hated Baligh or dealt with him as a stepfather, but I grieved and angry with him, because he did not keep my mother despite their love for each other, which ended in divorce.
On the real reason behind the divorce of Warda and Baligh Hamdi, he said: “My mother, Warda, revealed that the reason for the divorce was that she was undergoing a serious surgery, and that she was between life and death in the hospital, and instead of being next to her and with her in these difficult circumstances, he preferred to be in one of the Arab countries live his life as he likes without caring about her or her health condition, and this is the reason that made her decide to divorce, and it is not true that it is because of the presence of a particular singer in his life.
The late Baligh Hamdi was born in the Shubra area on this day, October 7, 1931. He studied law, but he never worked in it, so he presented his first tune to Abdel Halim Hafez through the song “Takhnouh”, as the musician Muhammad Fawzi introduced him to Umm Kulthum, so he composed a song for her.” Love Eh” in 1960, which was a resounding success.
Baligh Hamdi confirmed in a previous interview that his father was a professor of physics at Fouad I University, and he loved music since his childhood and learned to play the oud and mastered it at the age of nine.
Baligh Hamdi also loved Warda Al-Jazaeryia, and their relationship was strong, so he presented her with masterpieces of music, perhaps the most prominent of which are “Black Eyes”, “Stay Here”, “Haneen”, “If They Ask You” and “Listen to Me”.