Ambassador of the song kabyle around the world and interpreter of the famous song A Vava Inouva, Idir died Saturday night in Paris at the age of 70 years.
The singer of algeria Idir, one of the main ambassadors of the song kabyle around the world and the interpreter of the famous Vava Inouva, died Saturday night in Paris at the age of 70 years, announced his family. “We regret to announce the death of our father (to all), Idir, Saturday, may 2 at 21: 30. Rest in peace papa,” said a message published on the page Facebook official of singer, based in France. The family did not wish to speak.
“I learned with great sadness the news of the death of” Idir, “an icon of the algerian art”, was praised in a tweet by the president of the algerian Abdelmadjid Tebboune. “With his disappearance, Algeria lost one of its monuments”. His real name is Hamid Cheriet, Idir was born on 25 October 1949 in Aït Lahcène, near Tizi-Ouzou, capital of the Grande-Kabylie. While he was destined to be a geologist, a passage in 1973 on Radio Algiers to change the course of his life: he replaces the foot lifted the singer Nouara, and his song in the berber language (A Vava Inouva, which evokes the gatherings in the villages kabyles, tour the world without his knowledge while he is doing his military service.
“I’m come to the point where it needed to be, with the songs he had to”, told in 2013 Idir, impregnated since his childhood by the songs that punctuated all the moments of everyday life. He joined Paris in 1975 to produce his first album, also entitled ” A Vava Inouva. He disappears from the scene for ten years, from 1981 to 1991, but her career was then revived.
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in the fall of 1999, taking advantage of the impetus given by his countrymen to Cheb Mami and Khaled, he signed his return to the recording studio with the album Identity, where it offers a mix of “Chââbi”, the music is algerian, and rhythms borrowed from the genres of western. Has the image of his desire for a mixture of cultures, he sings with musicians from different cultural backgrounds, musical or geographical, such as Manu Chao, Dan Ar Braz, Zebda, Maxime Le Forestier, or Gnawa Diffusion, Gilles Servat, Geoffrey Oryema and the Orchestre national de Barbès.
“Moments of grace”
In 2007, he released the album The France of the colors, in the midst of the campaign for the French presidential election marked by debates on immigration and identity. In January 2018, the singer – which militates for the recognition of the cultural identity of the State – had returned to sing in Algiers, for the amazigh new year, Yennayer, after an absence of 38 years.
In an interview with the Newspaper of Sunday, April 2019, he referred to the popular protests in Algeria and the departure of Abdelaziz Bouteflika. “I liked everything of these events : the intelligence of this youth, his humor, and his determination to remain peaceful (…) I confess that I have experienced these moments of grace since the 22 February as puffs of oxygen. Suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, I know what I’m talking about,” he said. “Anyway, we are condemned to succeed. So let’s continue to think in terms of the algerian nation towards progress. If we remain united, nothing and nobody can defeat us”.
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Idir, who had been hospitalized Friday in Paris, has died of a lung disease and is expected to be buried in the paris region, according to his close friends and family.
