“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 …
Ambaraka, Bahishia, or Al-Naira, the champion of the braves. Read More »
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 …
El Hajja Halima … The exception among “Sheikhat” Read More »
He is the founder of modern Moroccan Chaabi Art (Moroccan popular music/pop) and the sole icon of the popular Moroccan modern. Most of the chaabi artists who became famous should be owing to Miloud Lamghari . Not only they did not add much to chaabi, but they also copied his songs and his style of …
Khadija el Bidawiya was born in 1953, in Ben Msik Sbata, the densely populated and chronically marginalized neighborhood on the southeastern fringe of Casablanca that has long been an incubator of al-aita, the popular music of Morocco’s Arabic speaking rural and urban poor. (The neighborhood has also sent more players than any other to Casablanca’s …
Khadija Al Bidawiya: Queen of Al Aita Al Marsawiya Read More »