Mahieddine Bachtarzi

Mahieddine Bachtarzi was born on the 15^th December 1897; he died on the 6^th February 1986. He was an Algerian singer, actor, writer and a director of the TNA. He was as well the author of close to 400 musical works with a career that bridged for about 70 years as he gained much honor for himself in life.

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Biography

Mahieddine Bachtarzi was born in Casbah, Algerian to a family that is wealthy and from Turkish origin. He passed through Islamic school at the Ben Medersa Osman Sheikh, and when he was 15 years of age he was entrusted because of the good voice quality he had, as a reciter of the Quran at the Great Mosque of the Algiers. He could not continue with the duty because he preferred the limelight of the austerity of the prayer hall and so he pushed on to focus on the singing.

In the year 1952, Mahieddine Bachtarzi had been talked about by the French press of North Africa equivalent of Caruso, and in the year 1926, he installed the new Paris Mosque with the first call to prayer.

By the 1930s, Mahieddine Bachtarzihad stood his own musical group that’s were good with the mixing of the North African Music with the use of popular theatre. His songs possessed explicit political overtones as he combined French with the spoken Arabic languages in his songs and that was the reason why one of his collections was banned in the year 1937 for anti-French sentiment.

For many years he stood in the center stage of many artistic activities of the country in which he took part in the field of singing, theatre acting and music as well as decorations, interpretations, staging and arranging of many provincial travelled both within and outside the country.