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Mohamed Abdennour (Ptit Moh)
Mohamed Abdennour (stage name Ptit Moh) is an Algerian composer, arranger and instrumentalist, active in France and playing a fusion of different musical forms mixed with chaabi. Early life He has been called a virtuoso on the Algerian mandole or ''mondol'', "one of most gifted on this instrument very present in the Châabi music." In France he has worked with other artists including, providing background music or participating in their bands, as well as arranging music for film and theater. The bands he has played with have played a wide mixture of music, including rap, ragga, reggae, jazz and raï. In addition to showing what the mondol can do, he also has showed the capabilities of other stringed instruments used in North Africa, including the banjo, oud, mandolin, sintir, guitar and laúd. Biography Abdennour began playing stringed instruments at age 8, including mandolin, mondol, banjo and guitar. He met Amar Ezzahi, one of the masters of the Algerian chaâbi in 1983 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaâbi
Chaabi ( in Arabic), also known as Chaâbi, Sha-bii, or Sha'bii meaning "folk", refers to different music genres in North Africa and the Middle East such as Algerian chaabi, Moroccan chaabi and Egyptian Shaabi. Chaabi music just means 'music of the people' that's why it's often found in weddings and local celebrations, and these styles are often associated with festivals. Popular artists * Hakim * Hassan El Asmar * Bahaa Sultan * Hicham.Bajit * Jedwan * Yassin Bounous * Daoudi Abdellah * Saïd Senhaji * El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka * El Hachemi Guerouabi * Amar Ezzahi * Dahmane El Harrachi * Kamel Messaoudi * Hamada Helal * Bab L' Bluz Bab L' Bluz is a Moroccan-French rock band that was formed in Marrakesh in 2018. The band consists of lead vocalist Yousra Mansour, gimbri player and multi-instrumentalist Brice Bottin, flautist Jérôme Bartholomé, and drummer Hafid Zouaoui. ... External links Hicham.Bajit MaghrebSpacenachattubedailyzik North African music Middl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondol
The Algerian mandole (mandol, mondol) is a steel-string fretted instrument resembling an elongated mandolin, widely used in Algerian music such as Chaabi, Kabyle music and Nuubaat (Andalusian classical music). The name can cause confusion, as "mandole" is a French word for mandola, the instrument from which the Algerian mandole developed. The Algerian mandole is not however a mandola, but a mandocello sized instrument. The instrument has also been called a "mandoluth" when describing the instrument played by the Algerian-French musician, Hakim Hamadouche. However, the luthier for one of Hakim's instruments describes it as a . Structure The Algerian mandole is a stringed instrument, with an almond shaped body, built in a box like a guitar, but almond shaped like the mandola with a flat back, raised fingerboard, and wide neck (as a guitar's). It can have eight, ten, or twelve strings in doubled courses, and may have additional frets between frets to provide quarter tones. A va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malya Saadi
''Ventenata'' is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Europe, North Africa, and central + southwest Asia. One species, ''Ventenata dubia'', is considered an invasive weed in many places. ; Species * ''Ventenata blanchei'' Boiss. - Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Israel * ''Ventenata dubia'' (Leers) Coss. & Durieu - central Europe, Mediterranean, Ukraine, southern European Russia, Caucasus, Turkey, Kazakhstan; naturalized in parts of North America * ''Ventenata eigiana'' (H.Scholz & Raus) Dogan - Turkey * ''Ventenata huber-morathii'' (Dogan) D.Heller - Turkey * ''Ventenata macra'' (Steven) Balansa ex Boiss. - Greece, Crimea, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Caucasus, Cyprus * ''Ventenata quercetorum'' Boiss. & Bal. - Turkey * ''Ventenata sorgerae'' (Dogan) D.Heller - Turkey * ''Ventenata subenervis ''Ventenata'' is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to Europe, North Africa, and central + southwest Asia. One species, ''Ventenata dubia'', is co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houria Aïchi
Houria Aïchi (born in Batna) is an Algerian Berber singer of chaoui music. Aïchi sings songs that she learnt in her childhood, accompanied by bendir. Biography Born in Aurès, Houria Aïchi went to study psychology in Paris in the 1970s. While teaching sociology, she started to perform in 1985, singing traditional songs of her childhood (lullabies, love songs), accompanied by traditional instruments ( gasbâ , bendir), Her first two released albums did not open doors. Houria Aïchi also participated in the music for the film ''The Sheltering Sky'' by Bernardo Bertolucci (1990). Her third album, ''Khalwa'' (meaning ''A Mystical Retreat'') was a collaboration with which was devoted to the sacred songs of Algeria, including those of dhikr and soufi. Houria Aïchi performed both in 2008 and 2013 at the festival ''Au fil des voix'' ( fr). She performed regularly in Paris from the 1990s. After the winter season of 2017–18 in France, Houria Aïchi was invited to the "Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shenzhen
Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong to the south, Dongguan to the north, and Huizhou to the northeast. With a population of 17.56 million as of 2020, Shenzhen is the third most populous city by urban population in China after Shanghai and Beijing. Shenzhen is a global center in technology, research, manufacturing, business and economics, finance, tourism and transportation, and the Port of Shenzhen is the world's fourth busiest container port. Shenzhen is classified as a Large-Port Megacity, the largest type of port-city in the world. Shenzhen roughly follows the administrative boundaries of Bao'an County, which was established since imperial times. The southern portion of Bao'an County was seized by the British after the Opium Wars an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karim Ziad
Karim Ziad (born 1966) is an Algerian musician. A percussionist, drummer, singer and composer, Ziad's music melds influences from North African music and jazz. Ziad was involved in a hard rock band in his youth in Algiers, before moving to Paris to study biology, where he became a jazz drummer for Cheb Mami, Khaled and Idir Idir may refer to: People * Ali Idir (born 1966), Algerian judoka * Idir (singer) (1949–2020), Algerian singer-songwriter and musician * Idir Khourta (born 1986), French-born Algerian table tennis player * Idir Ouali (born 1988), French-Alger ..., among others. References External links Karim Ziad at Discogs Algerian musicians 1966 births Living people Jazz drummers Jazz composers Jazz bandleaders 21st-century Algerian people {{Algeria-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grenoble
lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint-André, jardin de ville, banks of the Isère , arrondissement = Grenoble , canton = Grenoble-1, 2, 3 and 4 , INSEE = 38185 , postal code = 38000, 38100 , mayor = Éric Piolle , term = 2020–2026 , party = EELV , image flag = Flag of Grenoble.svg , image coat of arms = Coat of Arms of Grenoble.svg , intercommunality = Grenoble-Alpes Métropole , coordinates = , elevation min m = 212 , elevation m = 398 , elevation max m = 500 , area km2 = 18.13 , population = , population date = , population footnotes = , urban pop = 451096 , urban area km2 = 358.1 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazigh Kateb
Amazigh Kateb (born September 16, 1972) is an Algerian singer and musician. Early life He emigrated to France in Grenoble in 1988, he was a member of the group Gnawa Diffusion (formed in 1992). He is the son of the famous writer Kateb Yacine, founder of the modern Algerian literature (Nedjma, the circle of reprisals ...). Amazigh also claims Africanism and the mixture of cultures of the Algeria which is neither white nor black. Amazigh Kateb left the band from its beginnings to launch a solo career since 2007, to devote himself more to his personal projects. He announced the release of his first album for October 17, 2009. From 2005 to 2010 he participated in the musical documentary Tagnawittude made by Benhamou Rahma El Madani. Discography * 1993: [Légitime différence] * 1997: [Algeria] (Melodie) * 1999: [Bab el Oued – Kingston] (Musisoft)[2] * 2002: [DZ Live] (Next Musique) * 2003: [Souk System] (Warner) * 2007: [Fucking Cowboys] (D'JAMAZ Production) * 2009: [Marchez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safy Boutella
Safy Boutella ( ar, صافي بوتلة; born 6 January 1950) is an Algerian musician, arranger, composer, and record producer who graduated from Berklee College of Music. He is the father of dancer and actress Sofia Boutella. He is best known for creating with Khaled the album '' Kutché'', his album ''Mejnoun'', arranging Nass el Ghiwane, and many young artists since the nineties. He also composed for Djamel Allam Djawhara (kind of Algerian anthem), more than seventy movies soundtracks, and five musical frescoes. Biography In 1981, back from the United States, he gave several underground concerts in Algeria, developing a music based on compound rhythms and the fusion of North African, Oriental, and Western sounds. In 1986, with Cheb Khaled, he released the album ''Kutché'', which he co-produced with Martin Meissonnier and for which wrote arrangements. In July 2007, he celebrated thirty years of music: Orient, Khmous Alik, Kotidien...ZARBOT concerts, named after the spinn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idir (singer)
Hamid Cheriet ( kab, Ḥamid Ceryat; 25 October 1949 – 2 May 2020), better known by his stage name Idir, was an Algerian Kabyle singer-songwriter and musician. Referred to as the "King of Amazigh music", he is regarded as one of the more significant modern day figures in Algerian and Amazigh culture, history, and struggle. Along with musicians like Ferhat Mehenni and Lounis Aït Menguellet, Idir helped popularize Raï folk music. Initially training to be a geologist, his interest for music was piqued when he was called to sing on state radio as a late substitute. After finishing his compulsory military service, he moved to France in 1975 and embarked on his career in music. Idir took a hiatus during the 1980s before returning in 1993. He was a passionate advocate of the Kabyle and Berber cultures. Early life and career Idir was born in Aït Lahcene, Aït Yenni, Tizi Ouzou Province (part of French Algeria at the time), on 25 October 1949. He originally studied to bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chico And The Gypsies
Chico & the Gypsies is a French musical formation of rumba catalana, flamenco and Latin pop and rock tunes led by Jahloul Chico Bouchikhi, who was one of the founders of the Gipsy Kings. After he left the Gipsy Kings due to differences with the band, Bouchikhi formed Chico and the Gypsies in 1992. Members Chico & the Gypsies is made up of: * Jahloul (Chico Gypsies) Bouchikhi - frontman, guitar * Joseph (Jose Gypsies) Gautier - guitar, lead vocalist 2009 to 2020. Joseph Gautier aka Zuzep went solo in mid 2020. * Christophe (Kema) Baliardo - solo guitar * Jean (Tané) Farre - guitar * Jean-Claude (Mounin) Vila - guitar, vocals * Alain (Babato) Bourguet: guitar, vocals. Babato was suspended from the group around 2017 following accusations by a woman of sexual assault. He never returned to the group. * Jean-Pierre (Rey) Cargol Baliardo (son of Hippolyte Baliardo and nephew of Manitas de Plata) - guitar, vocals. Performer (Jean-Pierre Cargol, main role : ''Victor'') in 1969 of the film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
