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Abdelkader Chaou
Sound
10 Nov 1941 (84 years)
Algiers, Algeria
Biography
Abdelkader Chaou (Arabic: عبد القادر شاعو) is an Algerian singer, interpreter of Chaâbi. He was born on November 10, 1941 in the Casbah of Algiers, in a family from Azzeffoun wilaya of Tizi Ouzou. As a child, Abdelkader Chaou was intoxicated by the wafts of music escaping from the Moorish cafes of the Casbah of Algiers. Initially popular with dockers and fishermen, the song Chaâbi - literally "popular" - springing from the bowels of the lower Casbah of Algiers at the beginning of the twentieth ...
Also Known As
عبد القادر شاعو
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