Kamel Messaoudi Explained

Kamel Messaoudi
Native Name:كمال مسعودي
Native Name Lang:ar
Birth Date:30 January 1961
Genre:chaabi music
Occupation:Singer, instrumentalist

Kamel Messaoudi (Arabic: كمال مسعودي), (30 January 1961; Bouzaréah, Algeria  - 10 December 1998; Algiers) was an Algerian Chaabi music performer, highly regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Algerian history.

Biography

He was born in a family of Kabyle origins on January, 30th, 1961, in Bouzaréah at the suburbs of Algiers where he grew up. He started performing chaabi music in 1974 in a students group band.

Discography

Death

He died in a car crash in December 1998, at the age of 37.[1]

Notes and References

  1. News: Alger pleure Kamel Messaoudi, Le chanteur de néo-chaabi est mort à 37 ans dans un accident de voiture. Nidam. Abdi. 1998-12-15. Libération. French. 10 February 2012.