Chaabi ( in
Arabic), also known as Chaâbi, Sha-bii, or Sha'bii meaning "folk", refers to different
music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. It is to be distinguished from ''musical form'' and musical style, although in practice these terms are some ...
s in
North Africa and the
Middle East such as
Algerian chaabi
Chaabi is a traditional music of Algiers (Algeria), formalized by El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka.
Originally from the Casbah, the music known as chaabi belongs to a tradition of recent origin. It emerged during the 1930s, and has lost none of its power ...
,
Moroccan chaabi
Chaabi (lit. "popular") refers to several types of popular music of Morocco, combining rural and urban folk music.
The genre started out as street music performed in squares and ''souks'', and can be heard in cafés, at restaurants and at weddi ...
and
Egyptian Shaabi.
Chaabi music just means 'music of the people' that's why it's often found in
weddings and local celebrations, and these styles are often associated with festivals.
Popular artists
*
Hakim
* Hassan El Asmar
* Bahaa Sultan
* Hicham.Bajit
*
Jedwan
Mokhtar Jedwan, also written ''Jedwane'', or ''Jedouan'' (in Arabic: المختار جدوان, Rabat, 1967) is a Moroccan singer, who stopped his singing career in 2008 and became an Islamic preacher and a Quran reader.
Early life
Mokhtar Je ...
* Yassin Bounous
* Daoudi Abdellah
*
Saïd Senhaji
*
El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka
*
El Hachemi Guerouabi
*
Amar Ezzahi
*
Dahmane El Harrachi
*
Kamel Messaoudi
*
Hamada Helal
*
Bab L' Bluz
External links
Hicham.Bajit
MaghrebSpacenachattubedailyzik
North African music
Middle Eastern music
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