Abdelkader Chaou (Arabic: عبد القادر شاعو) is an Algerian singer, interpreter of Chaâbi. He was born on November 10, 1941 in the Casbah of Algiers, in a family from Azzeffoun wilaya of Tizi Ouzou. As a child, Abdelkader Chaou was intoxicated by the wafts of music escaping from the Moorish cafes of the Casbah of Algiers. Initially popular with dockers and fishermen, the song Chaâbi - literally "popular" - springing from the bowels of the lower Casbah of Algiers at the beginning of the twentieth century, has since widened its audience. Its founding master is called El Hadj M'hamed El Anka,...
عبد القادر شاعو
