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One of the first great Nubian Poets and Composers and an important eminence in the contemporary Nubian song, Hilmy Seid Mohammed Ali Abuzeid - known as Hilmy Abuzeid, from Abu Simbel, is famed for his creativity, and his more than 100 songs are sung by 27 different singers, 19 of whom are from Abu Simbel, 3 from Qustul, 2 from Ballana and one each from the villages of Masmas, Armena, Ibrim as well as from Jinineh u Shabak. His beautiful poems and melodies are greatly influencing Nubian art, and he helped many poets, musicians and singers on their way to their artistic career.

Born in the Nubian Artists' capital of Abu Simbel, in Old Nubia, on 19 March 1946, Hilmi Abuzeid started writing lyrics and poems - first in Arabic - at a young age, in 1958, and continued his artistic work throughout and after the displacement forced by the drowning of his native village in 1964. He studied Nubian writing, and his wonderful artwork, which also comprises 36 poems in Nubian and 35 in Arabic language, some of which were printed in magazines, helped keep alive traditional Nubian art after Nubians were dispersed. He collaborated with the program "Inspiration from the South", which was a beacon in Cairo. Hilmy Abuzeid issued 5 tapes, sung by 4 singers.

His famed melodies and beautiful love songs reflecting Nubian life, romance and deep feelings, songs written for Nubian festivities as well as some songs reminding religious piety are in all Nubians' hearts, and a song he wrote for Artist Ahmed Ismail was voted second at an internet enquiry for the best Nubian song of 2019.

The brilliant poet and composer Hilmi Abuzeid wrote songs for many great Artists, from the sixties to this day, including among others the regretted Saber Lulu, Abboudi Semil, Ahmed Ibrahim, Ahmed Hussein, Selim Shaarawy, Seid Jamal, Jamal Sherif. Mohammed Qenawy, Abdelrahman Wahbeh, Omar Jaafar, Ashraf Bata, Ahmed Haroun, Usama Rus as well as Adil Bata, Majdi Bata, Hisham Bata, Ahmed Hussein, Magdy Abdel Hamid, Mohammed Farouq, Omar Jaafar, Husam Fethy, Ahmed Ismail, Farah Elmasry, Mohammed Yousef, Ahmed Sherif, Bisimbis, and the young Hamo Mustafa as well as others. In his YouTube channel Nobiin Dorekolod Dr. Hassan Nour has written the words of several poems and lyrics of many songs of Hilmi Abuzeid in Nubian, sometimes with translations into Arabic and English.