Fatima Zahafa was a great Moroccan singer originally from Settat. Her fame is to be attributed, in addition to the numerous songs engraved during her career, to the great success obtained by the song “Zaoiua” made in 1965. The Zouia (a Muslim religious building) to which the song refers is that of the town Of …
Hajti Fi Grini Wa Qaidi Hadou Lkhyl Asidi Ragba taajabni Nta Ghadi Hadu Lkhyl Kwitini Wila Hamzet Ndarku wana yana yan… Mykoun Bass Yasidi Wila Mchit nūlwī wānāīānā…māīkūn bās asīdī al-rākbẗ tʿǧbnī ūlābās al-ābās kāsī frīdīā sīdī amīmtī mṣbrnī wāqāīdī māīdūm ḥd īā sīdī al-ḥāǧbāt iṭlwū aʾāʾāʾāh ūtā ġādī hādū al-ẖīl kwytīnī al-rākbẗ tʿǧbnī ǧābūk …
Souhail El Bidaoui, welcome Thank you Q: Who is Souhail El Bidaoui? A: I am a Ayta Artist, born in Sebata in Casablanca. I adore Ayta Art like no one can imagine and I live Ayta artists and culture. Q: Tell us about yourself and how did you start A: I was one of the …
Emblematic figure of Casablanca in the 1950s and 1960s, Zoubir Bouchaib Bidaoui was born in Derb Dalia, in the old medina, in 1929. Coming from a modest family from the outskirts of the city, he is one of the children enrolled in the one of the first modern schools in Bousbir Lakdim. In 1948, he …
“They call me the Oriental, Arabic and Spanish music, Hajja Hamdaouia rddatni mahboul” (it drove me crazy) It is in a song that Salim Halali presented to his audience the one he affectionately called ” Benti “(my daughter), his new finding, his darling It was in the fifties, at the Coq d’Or, prestigious cabaret that …
A decade later, Fatna Bent Lhoucine moved to work with the Ouled Ben Aguida, a group of Aita, composed of Bouchaib L’kawmanjeh, Miloud , the violinist, Boujamaa, percussionist, along with Sheikhat Zineb M’sika, L’hathra and Souad L’baydawiya, Sheikha Hafeedah, Busheib’s wife, /Main Sheikha “Taba’a”. Fatna recorded over than 200 Aita songs with this group. Her …
Mbarka bint Hamou al-Bheisheh, she became famous as a veteran resistance poet, in the pre- and post-protection period. She lived in the Beni Mellal region. And as stated in many novels, she is the author of the poem “The Brave,” which is considered to be the epitome of the Bedouin folk lyric heritage. She …
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Abdelaziz Al Arbaoui, great singer of Moroccan Chaabi, this specialist of kamanja (violin) was born in El Jadida in Morocco, in 1961. The opportunity to show off his talent comes almost by chance, a music band passing through his native country. The orchestra of Settat was stuck without the violinist and hires him for a …
Abdellah El Bidaoui is a Moroccan singer of Aita. He began his career in 1958 in the city of Casablanca in Morocco with the music band of the late Bouchaib Al Bidaoui (author of the theatrical performance “El aïta aalik”). Abdellah El bidaoui participated in many events and plays with this group. In 1960, Abdellah …
Hajja Halima is an exception among all Moroccan sheikhat. Although a large number of fans of the art of “Aita” don’t know the name of the Hajja Halima like they know Hajja Hamdaouia, Hajja Hamounia, Fatna Bent Lhoucine and other Aita Pioneers, the elite and and wealthy families inside and outside Morocco, know her well …