Moroccan pop or abbreviated as Morocco-pop music is a genre of the new
Moroccan music
Moroccan music varies greatly between geographic regions and social groups. It is influenced by musical styles including Arabic music, Arab, Berber music, Berber, Andalusian classical music, Andalusi, History of the Mediterranean region, Mediterr ...
generation along the
hip hop
Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip- ...
,
rap
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing, or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates " rhyme, rhythmic speech, and ommonlystreet vernacular". It is usually performed over a backin ...
music in Morocco.
[ Jeunesdumaroc.com]
List of Moroccan singers
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Manal
Manal was an Argentine rock group formed in 1968. Together with Almendra and Los Gatos, they are considered founders of Argentine rock. The band members were Claudio Gabis on guitar, Javier Martínez on drums and vocals, and Alejandro Med ...
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Asma Lamnawar
Asma Lamnawar (; born 25 July 1978) is a Moroccan singer and actress. She made her singing debut in 1995 with "Angham", a festival produced by Moroccan Radio and TV, where she won the prize for best interpretation, though she delayed beginning h ...
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Saad Lamjarred
Saad Bachir Lamjarred (; born 7 April 1985) is a Moroccan singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, and record producer. He is widely known for his music video " LM3ALLEM" which received over 1 billion views on YouTube, making it ...
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Salma Rachid
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Ibtissam Tiskat
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Ahmed Chawki
See also
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Moroccan hip hop
Moroccan rap music is a Moroccan musical style related to rap and hip hop culture. The emergence and evolution of rap music in Morocco represent a significant chapter in the country's contemporary cultural history. While influenced by global hi ...
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Moroccan Chaabi
Chaabi (lit. "popular") refers to several types of popular music of Morocco, combining rural and urban folk music.
The genre started out as street music performed in squares and ''Souq, souks'', and can be heard in cafés, at restaurants and at ...
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Gnawa
The Gnawa () (or Gnaoua, Ghanawa, Ghanawi, Gnawi'; ) are an ethnic group inhabiting Morocco, that had been brought as slaves from the West African Sahel.
The name Gnawa originated in the indigenous language of North Africa and the Sahara, Sahar ...
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Raï
Raï (, ; , , ), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s. Singers of Raï are called () or (), i.e. 'young', as opposed to (, 'shaykh'), i.e. 'old', the name given to Chaabi singers. The tradi ...
References
External links
Le Pop Marocain in Bladi.net
Arab culture
Music of Morocco
Moroccan styles of music
Moroccan hip-hop
Pop music by country
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