Boutaiba Sghir (born June 4, 1945) is an Algerian
raï singer and songwriter.
Biography
In 1963, he released his first single, at 18, Chetek el Berah. In 1963, he gave his first concert "Scène d'été" in Chaabet El Ham and
Aïn Témouchent. His first success came in 1968 with the single ''El Caoucaou''. Then he was a violinist for the orchestra of Oran radio from 1967 to 1969. In 1969, ''Raba Raba'' and ''El Fermliya'' are released and are still appreciated to this day by the public.
Like a lot of raï artists of his generation, he began his raï singer career at the end of 60s with Melhoun Bedoui music (also called old raï)
With
Boussouar El Maghnaoui
Boussouar El Maghnaoui (born 1955 in Maghnia, Algeria) is an Algerian rai singer-songwriter.
Biography
Born in 1955 in Maghnia ( Tlemcen Province), Algeria. He recounts it in his song "Je T'aime L'Algérie" (''I love you Algeria'') in 1978: ...
,
Bouteldja Belkacem
Bouteldja Belkacem (5 April 1947 – 1 September 2015 in Oran) was an Algerian raï songwriter, lyricist and composer.
Biography
Bouteldja Belkacem grew up in the El Hamri neighborhood of Oran in Algeria. He is considered a pillar of modern raà ...
and the musician
Gana El Maghnaoui
Mourad Gana ( ar, مراد قانا; born February 2, 1958), known professionally as Gana El Maghnaoui ( ar, قانا المغناوي), is an Algerian raï songwriter, lyricist and composer.
Biography
From Maghnia ( Tlemcen Province), Moura ...
, he was one of the fathers of modern raï (also called pop Bedoui or pop raï). Boutaiba Sghir has also worked with
Messaoud Bellemou
Messaoud Bellemou ( ar, مسعود بلمو) is an Algerian musician and one of the most influential performers of modern raï music. He is considered by some people like one of the fathers of Modern Raï Music.
Messaoud began his career playing ...
a notorious Algerian trumpeter.
Boutaiba Sghir will inspire many singers like
Cheb Khaled
Cheb (; german: Eger) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 30,000 inhabitants. It lies on the river Ohře.
Before the 1945 expulsion of the German-speaking population, the town was the centre of the German-s ...
. Cheb Khaled would said about him: ''"I am not the king of rai, I'm the ambassador. The real king is Boutaiba Sghir, it was he who taught me everything".''
In an interview for an Algerian video about the Raï History only in Algeria (see external links), Boutaiba Sghir declared to an Algerian journalist ''" The raï music was prohibited in all Algerian media (radios and TV) during the 70's"''. That is why there is no video of Algerian raï singers in Algerian TV or radio archives from the 70s.
He has also declared in different videos on YouTube that
Cheb Hasni is not a Raï Singer but an ''Asri Singer'' and that the pop raï (also called modern Bedoui or modern raï) existed before the coming of the trumpeter Bellemou.
In September 2010, Boutaiba Sghir was invited in Paris by Cheb Khaled with
Maurice El Medioni Maurice may refer to:
People
* Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr
* Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor
*Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and ...
,
Cheb Sahraoui and
Chaba Zahouania for a concert in tribute to Oran, entitled ''Oran Café''.
Songs
*''Chetek el Berah''
*''El Caoucaou''
*''Raba Raba''
*''El Fermliya''
*''El Ghira T'Hadar''
References
External links
* Boutaiba Sghir Interview (see at 9 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXuKnpZehzI
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1945 births
Living people
Raï musicians
People from Aïn Témouchent Province
20th-century Algerian male singers
21st-century Algerian male singers