Moroccan pop or abbreviated as Morocco-pop music is a genre of the new
Moroccan music
Moroccan music varies greatly between geographic regions and social groups. It is influenced by musical styles including Arabic music, Arab, Berber music, Berber, Andalusian classical music, Andalusi, History of the Mediterranean region, Mediterran ...
generation along the
hip hop,
rap
Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...
music in Morocco.
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List of Moroccan singers
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Manal
Manal was an Argentine rock group. Together with Almendra and Los Gatos, they are considered founders of Argentine rock.[Asmaa Lmnawar
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Saad Lamjarred
Saad Lamjarred ( ar, سعد لمجرد; born 7 April 1985) is a Moroccan singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, record producer and actor. He grew up in an artist family and became famous after his songs broke YouTube audience records, ...
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Salma Rachid
Salma Rachid ( ar, سلمى رشيد, Moroccan pronunciation: ; born 13 June 1994) is a Moroccan pop singer and actress who gained fame at the age of 18 following her participation in the second season of ''Arab Idol'', broadcast on MB ...
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Ibtissam Tiskat
Ibtissam Tiskat ar, إبتسام تسكت; zgh, ⵉⴱⵜⵉⵙⴰⵎ ⵜⵉⵙⴽⴰⵜ (born 3 October 1992) is a Moroccan singer and actress who rose to popularity as a contestant in both the second season of ''Arab Idol'' and the tenth sea ...
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Ahmed Chawki
Ahmed Chawki ( ar, أحمد شوقي; born 31 May 1982), known professionally by his stage name Chawki, is a Moroccan singer, songwriter and producer. Chawki began his career in the early 2000s. He had a music band named La Paloma which mainly fo ...
See also
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Moroccan hip hop
Moroccan rap music is a Morocco, Moroccan musical style related to Rap music, rap and hip hop culture.
Chronology
Moroccan's hip-hop and urban culture history dates back to the mid-1990s, when, after hip-hop's emergence in Western culture, Morocc ...
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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 ...
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Gnawa
The Gnawa (or Gnaoua, Ghanawa, Ghanawi, Gnawi'; Arabic: ڭناوة) are an ethnic group inhabiting Morocco.
The name Gnawa probably originated in the indigenous language of North Africa and the Sahara Desert. The phonology of this term accordi ...
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Raï
Raï (, ; ar, راي, Latn, ar, rāʾy, ), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian traditional music, folk music that dates back to the 1920s. Singers of Raï are called ''cheb'' (Arabic: شاب) (or ''shabab,'' i.e. young) as opposed ...
References
External links
Le Pop Marocain in Bladi.net
Arab culture
Moroccan music
Moroccan styles of music
Moroccan hip hop
Pop music by country
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