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Music in Algeria offers a rich diversity of genre: popular music ( Chaabi ), various genres of Andalusian classical music such as Sana'a, Gharnati music, Ma'luf, as well as classical Arabic, Bedouin, Berber music (Staifi, Raï, Kabyle, Shawi, Tuareg, Gnawa, etc.), Andalusian music is particularly well developed in Algeria, and is considered the ...
v. t. e. Chaabi is a traditional music of Algiers ( Algeria ), formalized by El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka . Originally from the Casbah, the music known as chaabi belongs to a recent tradition. It emerged during the 1930s, and has remained popular to this day. [1] Inspired by vocal traditions of Andalusi music, such as muwashshah, using its modes and ...
Raï ( / raɪ.i /, / raɪ /; Arabic: راي, rāʾy, [raʔi] ), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s. Singers of Raï are called cheb ( Arabic: شاب) or shabab, i.e. young, as opposed to sheikh ( Arabic: شيخ, shaykh ), i.e. old, the name given to Chaabi singers. The tradition arose in the ...
"Abdel Kader" (Arabic: عبد القادر) is an Algerian traditional song made famous by the Algerian raï artist Khaled. It is mistakenly thought to be about the Emir `Abd al-Qādir al-Jazā'irī, a famous Algerian Muslim religious leader and freedom fighter who resisted the French conquest of Algeria, but is actually about the 12th century Sufi saint Shaikh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (1078 ...
Mohamed Khelifati ( Arabic: محمد خليفاتي, Muḥammad Khalīfātī; born 11 July 1966), better known by his stage name Cheb Mami (Arabic: شاب مامي, shābb māmī ), is an Algerian musician and singer-songwriter. He sings and speaks in Algerian Arabic and sometimes in Eastern Arabic dialects or in French. Internationally, he is ...
Khaled Hadj Ibrahim ( Arabic: خالد حاج إبرهيم, pronounced [ˈxaːlɪd ħaːdʒ ʔɪbraːˈhiːm]; born 29 February 1960), better known by his mononym Khaled (Arabic: خالد ), is an Algerian raï singer, musician and songwriter. He began recording in his early teens under the name Cheb Khaled ( شاب خالد, Arabic for "Young ...
Kassaman. " Kassaman ", [ 1][ 2] or " Qassaman " [ 3] ( Arabic: قَسَمًا, romanized : Qasaman, "we pledge", [ 1][ 2] "the oath" or "we swear" [ 3] ), is the national anthem of Algeria. Moufdi Zakaria authored the lyrics, while the music was composed by Egyptian composer Mohamed Fawzi. The song was adopted as the national anthem in 1962 ...
On July 14, 2022, YouTube made a special playlist and video celebrating the 317 music videos to have hit 1 billion views and joined the "Billion Views Club". [65] [66] On April 1, 2024, the communications app Discord incorporated a short trailer video into their in-app April Fools' Day prank regarding loot boxes. The video automatically looped ...