The audience are on their feet and dancing, during a jazz concert by Minneapolis U.S. Bluesman Bernard Allison in Constantine, Algeria. Young people climbed up the old marble columns of the hall for a ...

Rachid Taha, who became a rock star in France with assertive lyrics and music that melded his Algerian heritage with punk, funk and electronic beats, has died in Les Lilas, a Paris suburb. He was 59.

Numidia Lezoul, born in February 1996 in Bouira (Algeria), has established herself as a key figure in Algerian music and beyond. Singer, actress and influencer, she captivates an ever-growing audience ...

The other year, I made the case for Moondog as Christmas music. Odds are, you not only took my advice, but you and your people took it so to heart that now your grandmother is running around the house ...

Listening to El Medioni’s work is a deep dive into the history of north African Jews over the last 150 years, long pre-dating his birth. Idir’s songs gave Kabyles a sense that their culture counted: ...

"Bled Music" is an Algerian musical television program broadcast on ENTV between 1991 and 1992. directed by Aziz Smati and presented by Kamel Dynamite, Farid Rockeur and Samia Benkherroubi. The show, ...

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Born in Algeria but living in France since he was 10, Taha was always passionately outspoken in his songs both against what he saw as the West's racism and unjust wars, and the Arab world's ...