He was born in abu Kbeer city on 3/3/1910, where  his father worked as a weaver and left to Cairo in 1918 because of his poverty. the son couldn’t gain except education less than average and he worked in music field  Abed Al Wahab was appointed in Tanta as a music teacher in 1928 for period of 18 years and then returned to Cairo after taking up singing and music as a career . Sheikh  abu-el Ela Mohamed and Sheikh Sayed Darwish encouraged him greatly till he was called (the king singer) in 1936. he established a company to produce movies as he participated in about 6 movies and composed more than 2.500 melodies for all Egyptian singers as well as the singers of Arab countries. Moreover, he is  the composer of national anthem for Rrepublic of Egypt and many Arab countries.  he died in 1991 but his voice  and composing are still globally widespread until now .