Abdelaziz Chamkh has left us.....

Abdelaziz Chamkh began his artistic career in 1964 in the company of Abdelhadi Igoute, within the group "Tabghaynouzt" then "Lakdam", representing the city of Dcheira in Agadir, before participating in the creation of the legendary musical troupe "Izenzaren "who worked on human subjects, emotional and social.
He also contributed to the preservation of the artistic heritage of Rais Lhaj Belaid, a pioneer of the Amazigh song of Souss, singing 43 of his poems.
fire funeral Abdelaziz Chamkh, great figure of Amazigh music who died Friday in Rabat at the age of 63 following a long illness, took place Sunday after the prayer of the Addohr Irahhalen cemetery Dcheira.
After the prayers of Addohr and dead to the mosque Al Mouhcinine, mourners visited Irahhalen cemetery where the deceased was buried in the presence of family members, the governor of Inezgane Ait Melloul prefecture of chairman of the urban commune of Agadir, as well as many friends and relatives of the deceased.
The deceased, a founder of the legendary group "Izenzaren" was considered a modern Amazigh song icon to having worked for more than half a century, the promotion of Amazigh music alongside a generation pioneers, who managed to secure the authentic Amazigh poetry to modern instruments.

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Hassane Idbassaid

Hassane Idbassaid, born in 1967 in Tiznit in southern Morocco is a singer and representative of contemporary modern Moroccan Amazigh song. In the early 1990s, Idbassaid meeting Ammuri Mbark, great name of the Moroccan Amazigh song. It marks a turning point in his career; he toured with him in Europe, and collaborates with a recording of her albums. It combines and refines the traditional Berber music and modern it incorporates contemporary instruments such as drums, bass, guitar, and more traditional instruments of this genre: monochord violin, ribab, Amazigh and Banjo, the lohtar.

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Ammouri Mbark has left us ......

Ammuri Mbark, born in 1951 in Irguiten at the foot of the High Atlas near Taroudant and died February 14, 2015 in Casablanca, is a composer, singer and musician Moroccan Amazigh. He is considered an innovator in Amazigh music.
After a childhood in the Taroudant orphanage run by the "Franciscan" Sisters, he took part in the institution's choirs and acquires singing techniques
Ammuri Mbark will be part of Ousman group (meaning Lightning), which was a big success in prestigious concert venues such as the Olympia in Paris, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Winter Palace in Lyon. The group disbanded in 1978 and continues Ammuri Mbark a solo career and recorded Tazwit nera nek dim a NMUN (meaning in French Bee, I want to be your companion). The musician innovates Amazigh music, combining tradition and modernity and interprets the repertoire of contemporary poets he likes Amazigh including Azayko, Mohammed El Moustaoui, Akhiyyat ... whose lyrical themes reinforce the Amazigh identity and evoke love, wandering and exile.

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