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Chant chaoui houria aichi salh
Houria Aïchi
Algerian Berber singer of chaoui music
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Houria Aïchi at the 20th Maghreb des livres (Paris, February 8, 2014). | |
Born | Batna, Algeria |
Occupation | singer |
Years active | 1985–present |
Musical artist
Houria Aïchi (born in Batna) is an Algerian Berber singer of chaoui music.[1] Aïchi sings songs that she learnt in her childhood,[2] accompanied by bendir.[3]
Biography
Born in Aurès, Houria Aïchi went to study psychology in Paris in the 1970s.
While teaching sociology, she started to perform in 1985, singing traditional songs of her childhood (lullabies, love songs), accompanied by traditional instruments (gasbâ, bendir), Her first two released albums did not open doors.
Houria Aïchi also participated in the music for the film The Sheltering Sky by Bernardo Bertolucci (1990). Her third album, Khalwa (meaning A Mystical Retreat) was a collaboration with Henri Agnel [fr] which