Meriem Fekkaï
Meriem Fekkai (1889 - July 18, 1961) sometimes spelled Fekai, was an Algerian singer. Fekkai came from a Jewish family born and raised in Biskra, Algiers, where she developed her musical career. She began her singing career rather late, but had great success at the time.
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Meriem Fekkaï
- Born
- Meriem Fekkaï was born in 1889. · Algiers.
- Died
- Meriem Fekkaï died on 18 July 1961. · Algiers.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- singer · songwriter · musician
- Languages
- Arabic
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Meriem Fekkai (1889 - July 18, 1961) sometimes spelled Fekai, was an Algerian singer. Fekkai came from a Jewish family born and raised in Biskra, Algiers, where she developed her musical career. She began her singing career rather late, but had great success at the time.
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She played the Hawzii of Arab-Andalusian music and set to music many poems of the Algerian directory.
The recorded working language is Arabic. Hawzi is recorded as an influence.
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1961
Meriem Fekkaï died at Algiers.
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- 1.Maxim Silverman, Palimpsestic Memory : The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film, New York: Berghahn Books, 2013, VIII-206 p. , p. 83.
- 2.Tony Langlois, "Jewish Musicians in the Musique Orientale of Oran, Algeria", in Davis Ruth Frances (ed.), Musical Exodus : Al-Andalus and its Jewish Diasporas, Lanham (Maryland): Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, , p.161.
- 3.Grande dame de la chanson Algérienne.
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