Nourredine Meziane (Cheikh Nourredine)

Noureddine Meziane in arabic ??? ????? ????? born in 1918 and died in August 1999 known as Cheikh Noureddine is an Algerian singer poet actor and writer Born in 1918 in the village of Aguemoun in the commune of Larbaâ Nath Irathen exFortNational in Grande Kabylie he is the son of Si Mohand Tahar Ouguemoun a village teacher Sidi Abderrahman school He attended Koranic school until the age of 16 In 1935 he landed with his brother Mohamed Noureddine in Algiers where he was hired as a waiter in various establishments In 1936 while he was singing while doing the dishes in a tavern Meziane was noticed by the director of Pathé Marconi who lived not far from there and offered to record his songs He sings Anfyad rur and A xali xali for the first time Two years later he recorded his first album consisting of 12 songs Allo triciti Anfiyad rur A xali xali Yelis t murth etc A few months later he contributed to the foundation of a Kabyle channel Channel 2 through his shows his sketches and his songs In 1960 he published Un Algérien conte with Editions du Seuil and in 1998 the writer Youssef Nacib devoted a biography to him Cheikh Noureddine comedian poet singer Éditions ElOuns In the cinema he began his career in the film Les horslaloi 1969 by Tewfik Fares Then we see it in the film Patrol in the East 1971 by Amar Laskri he plays the friend in the film Chronicle of the Burning Years 1975 with Yorgo Voyagis Mohammed LakhdarHamina Leila Shenna and directed by Mohammed LakhdarHamina Noureddine Meziane died in August 1999