This was not to be the record that launched her career, however. She made her first record in 1952, a three-track on Pathé Records under the name Cheikha Remettez Reliziana, which included the famous Er-Raï Er-Raï. Soon after, she adopted the name Cheikha Rimitti. Her fame spread by word of mouth across Algeria during the Second World War until she was taken under the patronage of a well-known Algerian musician of the time, Cheikh Mohammed Ould Ennems, who took her to Algiers where she made her first radio broadcasts. She eventually composed more than 200 songs but remained illiterate all her life. Rimitti was one of the first to sing them in public and did so in the earthy language of the street, using a rich blend of slang and local language. Traditionally, songs of lust had been sung privately by Algerian women at rural wedding celebrations but were considered crude and unfit to be heard in polite society. Her songs described the tough life endured by the Algerian poor, focusing on everyday struggle of living, pleasures of sex, love, alcohol and friendship and the realities of war. In 1943 she moved to the rural town of Relizane and began writing her own songs. Early musical career Īt age 15, she joined a troupe of traditional Algerian musicians and learnt to sing and dance. She had been orphaned as a child due to violent French occupation and began to live rough, earning a few francs working in the fields and doing other manual jobs. She is from the major Berber tribe Beni Ouragh. Cheikha Rimitti ( Arabic: شيخة ريميتي) (born سعدية الغيزانية Saadia El Ghizania, – ) was an Algerian raï female singer.Ĭheikha Rimitti was born in Tessala, a small village in western Algeria in 1923.
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