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Bellemou Messaoud

 
Artist: Messaoud Bellemou
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  • Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Rock
  • Instrument: Trumpet
  • Representative Albums: "C'est Pas Ma Faute: The Father of Rai Music", "Wahran: Live at Extrafesta
  • Representative Songs: "El Chira Illi Nbigha", "Ana Wa Gzalli", "Goululha Twali

Biography

Affectionately known as 'La Pere du Rai (The Father Of Rai)', Messaoud Bellemou helped user in a new era for Algerian dance music. A trumpet player in a village band, during the 1960s, Bellemou has continued to incorporate western instruments, including saxophone, trumpet, violin, lute and accordion, and influences ranging from jazz and rock to flamenco and Latin music. ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide
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Bellemou Messaoud is an Algerian musician, and one of the most influential performers of modern raï music. Known as the "Father of Raï",[1] Messaoud began his career playing the trumpet but soon became known for adding foreign instruments like the saxophone[2], violin, and accordion to the genre. In 1974 he coined the term pop-raï to describe the new generation of chebs and chebats (from the Arabic for "young") introducing new instruments,[3] and together with Belkacem Boutheldja released one of the first records of the new genre.[2]

References

  1. ^ Cliff Furnald. "RootsWorld: African Archive #8". http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/africa8.html. Retrieved 2009-03-31. 
  2. ^ a b Mehdid, Malika (2006), "For a Song – Censure in Algerian Rai Music", in Drewett, Michael; Cloonan, Martin, Popular music censorship in Africa, Ashgate Publishing, p. 206, ISBN 9780754652915 
  3. ^ Marranci, Gabriele (2005), "Algerian Raï into Beur Raï: The Music of Return", in Cooper, David; Dawe, Kevin, The Mediterranean in Music, Scarecrow Press, p. 199, ISBN 9780810854079 
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