Meriem Fekkai () (1889 - July 18, 1961) sometimes spelled Fekai, was an Algerian singer.
Fekkai came from a Jewish familyMaxim Silverman, Palimpsestic Memory : The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film, New York: Berghahn Books, 2013, VIII-206 p. , p. 83. born and raised in Biskra,Tony Langlois, "Jewish Musicians in the Musique Orientale of Oran, Algeria", in Davis Ruth Frances (ed.), Musical Exodus : Al-Andalus and its Jewish Diasporas, Lanham (Maryland): Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, , p.161. Algiers, where she developed her musical career. She began her singing career rather late, but had great success at the time. She played the Hawzii of Arab-Andalusian music and set to music many poems of the Algerian directory.
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