Sound
Idir
Born — Died
1949-10-25 — 2020-05-02
Place of birth
At Yenni, Algeria
Known for
Sound
Credits
4 titles
Idir (in Amazigh: ⵉⴷⵉⵔ, in Arabic: إدير), whose real name is Hamid Cheriet, was born in 1949 in Aït Lahcène, 35 km from Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria. He is an Algerian singer, songwriter, and musician who performs in the Kabyle language. Idir was born in 1949 in the village of Aït Lahcène, in the Djurdjura Mountains of Kabylia. The son of a shepherd, he grew up in an environment where Berber poetry and culture held a central place, where the Kabyle language was spoken, and where local traditions nourished his musical imagination. From the outset, his world was marked by the voices of the women around him: “I was lucky enough to have a grandmother and a mother who were poets,” he would later say, sum…
Known for
3.6No synopsis available yet.
Vivement dimanche
1998
3.3No synopsis available yet.
Victoires de la musique
1985
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Jean-Jacques Goldman, de l'intérieur
2017
9.0Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with a set where music groups from the countries of origin of immigration perform, and which broadcasts reports on these countries and on immigrants who live in France. When it was created, it aimed to promote the cultures of origin of immigrants, but also to make them better known to the rest of the population. However, the program was never financed by public television which considers that it was aimed at a specific audience and was therefore not part of a public service mission. It received financial support from the Ministry of Labor, through its subsidy to the National Office for the Cultural Promotion of Immigrants, ONPCI (later becoming Information Culture and Immigration, ICEI, in 1977, then Agency for the Development of Intercultural Relations , ADRI). , in 1982).
Mosaïque
1976