Acting
Kamel Hamadi
Born
1936-12-22 (89)
Place of birth
Aït Daoud, Algeria
Known for
Acting
Credits
2 titles
Kamel Hamadi, real name Larbi Zeggane (in Arabic: كامل حمادي, in Amazigh: ⵍⵄⴻⵔⴱⵉ ⵥⴻⴳⴳⴰⵏ), born December 22, 1936 in Aït Daoud, Wilaya of Tizi Ouzou, in Algeria, is a singer-songwriter in Kabyle and Algerian Arabic. During his career, he signed a total of 2000 titles. He is the husband of the Algerian singer Noura. Kamel Hamadi attended school until he obtained his primary school certificate in 1950. He then became a tailor, like his father Saïd Zeggane, at the age of 14. In 1953, he moved to Algiers, with another uncle, and it was there that he showed his writing talents for the first time to the singer Arab Ouzellag. He encouraged him in this direction, then thanks to Saïd Rezoug who open…
Known for
10.0The artistic journey of Dahmane El Harrachi, born in 1925 in Algiers, bears the mark of his experience. An attentive and vigilant observer of the environment of immigrant workers, Dahmane has always avoided falling into the ambient miserabilism. From the Algerian Chaâbi, he has kept certain melodic lines and a clear propensity for sayings drawn from the oral poetic tradition. El Harrachi uses simple language, understandable by all popular sectors of the Maghreb, which partly explains its wide success. In 1949, he went to France and it was in cafes, springboard places where people come to breathe the air of the country, that he performed regularly. Elegant, with his beautiful atmosphere, the “bluesman” of the suburbs seduces, upsets and stirs consciences. Discovered late by the new generation, the creator of Ya Rayah met a tragic end, on August 31, 1980, in a car accident, on the Algiers coast which he sublimated above all else.
The Revolution Of El Harrachi
2014
10.0Portrait of the Algerian singer and composer Kamal Hamadi (husband of the singer Noura). Performer, musician, conductor, lyricist, author and composer, he is considered today as the witness par excellence of Algerian artistic action of the 20th century. The film received the Golden Olivier for best documentary 2010 at the Tizi-Ouzou Amazigh Film Festival in Algeria.
Kamel Hamadi, Ger Yenzizen
2010
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
10.0The artistic journey of Dahmane El Harrachi, born in 1925 in Algiers, bears the mark of his experience. An attentive and vigilant observer of the environment of immigrant workers, Dahmane has always avoided falling into the ambient miserabilism. From the Algerian Chaâbi, he has kept certain melodic lines and a clear propensity for sayings drawn from the oral poetic tradition. El Harrachi uses simple language, understandable by all popular sectors of the Maghreb, which partly explains its wide success. In 1949, he went to France and it was in cafes, springboard places where people come to breathe the air of the country, that he performed regularly. Elegant, with his beautiful atmosphere, the “bluesman” of the suburbs seduces, upsets and stirs consciences. Discovered late by the new generation, the creator of Ya Rayah met a tragic end, on August 31, 1980, in a car accident, on the Algiers coast which he sublimated above all else.
The Revolution Of El Harrachi
2014
10.0Portrait of the Algerian singer and composer Kamal Hamadi (husband of the singer Noura). Performer, musician, conductor, lyricist, author and composer, he is considered today as the witness par excellence of Algerian artistic action of the 20th century. The film received the Golden Olivier for best documentary 2010 at the Tizi-Ouzou Amazigh Film Festival in Algeria.
Kamel Hamadi, Ger Yenzizen
2010