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He died at the age of 70, Hamid Cheriet, popularly known as the Algerian singer Idir, an “ambassador” of the Kabul culture belonging to the Berber family, confirmed the family on the artist’s official Facebook page.
Idir died in Paris on Saturday, according to French newspapers, and was rushed to hospital on Friday due to lung failure.
Algerian President Abdel-Majid Tebbun recalled the singer on Twitter. “With his death, the culture of Algeria lost a pillar, an icon of Algerian art,” he wrote of the singer, considered a “national treasure” in his homeland.Idir was born in 1949 near the capital of Kabili, Tizi Uzu, which was then a French colony.
He studied to be a geologist, but his fate reached a tipping point when he was called on a radio recording at the last minute to replace a singer in the performance of the song A Vava Inouva.
The song was a lullaby interwoven with the musical traditions of the Berber culture and became very popular in Algeria. Idir moved to France in 1975 after completing his military service and recording his first album, the popular lullaby.His music bore the marks of Kabil Berber traditions, and he was considered primarily an ambassador of Kabul culture to the world.
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