Akli Yahiatene (born in 1933) is an Amazigh-Kabyle singer, from Algeria. He was born in Aït-Mendes, near

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(wilaya of

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), and emigrated to France in the 1950s, where he worked in

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plants and supported the Algerian Front de libération nationale (FLN), for which he was put in jail several times where he composed many songs. His popularity lasted from the 1950s to the 1970s.

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1933 births Living people People from Tizi Ouzou Province Algerian emigrants to France Kabyle people 20th-century Algerian male singers {{arabic-music-stub