Meriem Fekkaï

Meriem Fekkai (Arabic: مريم فكاي‎‎), sometimes spelled Fekai or Fekkai, was a French singer from Algeria. Born in 1889 and died in July 18, 1961, Meriem Fekkai is native of Biskra[1] from a Jewish family[2], although she was raised in Algiers where she began and ended her musical career.[3]

She began her singing career rather late, but her talent was such as it had a great success at the time, she played the Hawzi of Arab-Andalusian music and put to music many poems of the Algerian directory.

References

  1. ↑ 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, ISBN 978-0-81-088175-4, p.161.
  2. ↑ Maxim Silverman, Palimpsestic Memory : The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film, New York: Berghahn Books, 2013, VIII-206 p. ISBN 978-0-85-745883-4, p. 83.
  3. ↑ "Grande dame de la chanson Algérienne". Retrieved December 14, 2012.


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