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Khalida Azzouza
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From her earliest days, Khalida Azzouza was cradled by the sounds of Arabo-Andalusian music. Her mother chanted all day long in Arabic, Spanish and French, and Khalida spent her early childhood steeped in the warmth of Mediterranean melodies. She sang for the last time in public in Algiers ten years ago, at the Ibn Khaldoun Hall, directed her well-known professor and composer Rabah Kadem, whom she studied under for four years. Her natural, authentic voice amazes us with its disconcerting intimacy and joy, which are conveyed with great simplicity. Khalida's repertory runs the gamut of Algerian music, at times reminiscent of Oran, her mother's hometown, at times invoking the vastness of the Sahara, her father's region. But it also encompasses traditional Chaabi and Hawzi styles, mythical amazigh music and the songs of Fayrouz, Om Kalthoum, Léo Ferré and Charles Aznavour. You will be transported by the passion in her voice and a gust of wind from the South. Khalida is currently working on her debut album with renowned French jazz pianist Philippe Noireaut and the fantastic roumanian violin virtuoso Carmen Piculeata. This creative trio Algeria-France-Romania is preparing a dozen titles charged with such deep of emotions and soul that will give you goose bumps. 
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