Fatima Banou (in
Berber
Berber or Berbers may refer to:
Ethnic group
* Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
* Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
Places
* Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
* Ady Berber (1913–196 ...
:''ⴼⴰⵟⵉⵎⴰ ⴱⴰⵏⵓ'' – born in
Tamanar in 1969), also known as Raissa Tihihit Mzzin (Little Tihihit), is a Moroccan singer in the Amazigh
Tachelhit
( ; from its name in Moroccan Arabic, ), now more commonly known as Tashelhiyt or Tachelhit ( ; from the endonym , ), is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco. When referring to the language, anthropologists and historians prefer the ...
dialect.
Childhood
Fatima Banou was born in 1969 in
Tamanar, in the region of
Essaouira
Essaouira ( ; ), known until the 1960s as Mogador (, or ), is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marrakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. It has 77,966 inhabitants as of 2014.
The foundation of the city of Essaouira was the work of t ...
, in
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...
, in a family having 7 children. She had 3 brothers and 3 sisters. Fatima was forced to marry at the age of 8 by her parents, and could not live with an adult husband at the age. She divorced and was married her cousin, but that marriage ended also, and by the age of 15 she was a single mother of her daughter.
Career
Raissa Fatima Tihihit started her musical career in 1983, when she engaged in the troop of the Raiss (master) Lhaj Mohamed Albensir. In 1986, she formed her own group and collaborated with famous masters such as Lhaj
Omar Wahrouch and Ait Bounsir. Fatima Tihihit gave several concerts both in Morocco and internationally, where she performed as part of different tours (including France, Indonesia, USA, UAE, Saudi Arabia).
Fatima Tihihit is also an actress and participated in several series and films on Moroccan television.
See also
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Tashelhit
( ; from its name in Moroccan Arabic, ), now more commonly known as Tashelhiyt or Tachelhit ( ; from the endonym , ), is a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco. When referring to the language, anthropologists and historians prefer the ...
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Omar Wahrouch
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Fatima Tabaamrant
References
1969 births
Moroccan folk singers
21st-century Moroccan women singers
Living people
People from Essaouira
20th-century Moroccan women singers
Berber-language singers of Morocco
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