Moroccan Folk Musicians by Instrument - Moroccan Folk Singers, Moroccan Folk Violinists, Abdessadeq Cheqara, Laarbi Batma, Mohamed Rouicha (Paperback)

Chapters: Moroccan Folk Singers, Moroccan Folk Violinists, Abdessadeq Cheqara, Laarbi Batma, Mohamed Rouicha. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Abdessadeq Cheqara (1931-October 31, 1998) (in Arabic: ), was a Moroccan singer of traditional Andalusian classical music and Moroccan folk music . Known as the grand master of al-Ala (Andalusian music), he was also a violin and oud virtuoso. Abdessadeq Cheqara was born in Tetuan, Morocco, a city noted for its Andalusian influences. His father, Abdessalam Cheqara, was a famed singer and musician in Tetuan, while his mother, Assoudia Alharrak, was descended of a family of poets, musicians and philosophers. From a young age, Cheqara was drawn to music and poetry, being influenced by his father, who gave him his first oud. Cheqara was also influenced by the Zawia Al-Harraqiya sufi movement, which practises devotion to Allah through the performance of Andalusian music. Many of the songs are also about beautiful Andalusia, beautiful women and good wine, remindful of the Al-Andalus period. By the age of fourteen, Cheqara already performed in a band, meeting Abdessalam Allouch, who taught him malhoun (the Arabic art of sung poetry). Cheqara sang Andalusian and traditional Moroccan folksongs in mawawil (improvised solo), inshad (solo) styles, and his band was famous for their live instrumental improvisation (taqsim). Many of his songs were based on poetry and folklore passed through families in Tetuan. In 1940, along with other artists, he petitioned Si Ahmed Belbachir Haskouri, chief of the khalifa's cabinet, Secretary General of the government and Head of the palace who had the monarch's seal in his hand, in the name of the Khalifa, Muley El Hassan Ben El Mehdi for a conservatorium for Moroccos Andalusian musi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5526665