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Abdelmadjid Meskoud (Arabic: عبدالمجيد مسكود) is an Algerian singer born on March 31, 1953 in the El Hamma district of Belcourt (today Belouizdad) in Algiers, Algeria. A self-taught artist, he is credited with mastering the art of chaâbi music (Algerian musical genre, born in Algiers at the beginning of the 20th century, derived from Arab-Andalusian music from Algiers. "Chaâbi" means "popular" in Arabic , it is one of the most popular musical genres in Algeria. Abdelmadjid Meskoud, who never went to music school, began in 1969 to strum his first guitar while first practicing comedy in the Mohamed Touri troupe from the Place du 1er-Mai which Mohamed Tahar Benhamla directed, then in the Popular Theater Troupe (TTP) which was led by Hassan El-Hassani. Meskoud spent two years in Béchar - mi...
