Idir: how a song from the village took Algerian music to the world: David Wolff-Patrick/WireImage/Getty ImagesIn the 1990s I had the good fortune to meet with the late Algerian singing star Idir (Hamid Cheriet 1949-2020). We chatted for several hours in a café outside the Berber Cultural Association in Paris. I was doing research on what by then … [Read more...] about Idir: how a song from the village took Algerian music to the world | The Conversation
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