Lounès Matoub
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Lounès Matoub was a Kabyle singer, poet, and thinker who sparked an intellectual revolution, and mandole player who was an advocate of the Amazigh cause, human rights, and secularism in Algeria throug
Matoub during his military service from 1975 to 1977
Matoub in 1973
Matoub with his Algerian mandole in 1975. He was an Algerian singer of Kabyle music.
Lounès (in the middle with the white shirt) with his friends, notably Mourad Nechab, known to be his favorite, and family in Kabylia.
Raï
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Raï, sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian popular music whose origins date back to the 1920s. Younger singers of Raï are called cheb or cheba, i.e. 'young', as opposed to sheikh, i.e. 'old', t
Covers of Raï albums from the 1980s
Cheikh Hamada
Cheikha Remitti (1923–2006)
Rachid & Fethi