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Hasna El Becharia Quotes

1950–2024 Algeria

Hasna El-Bacharia (Arabic: حسناء البشارية; June 28, 1950 – 1 May 2024) was an Algerian singer and multi-instrumentalist who specialized in diwan music and playing the sintir.

Algeria
Singers

Random Hasna El Becharia quote

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What’s different is your mind and your experience.

This is a very personal record, I got a lot of suffering and memories out of my system. I gave everything I had in me.

There’s no stress. If things aren’t working, we just brew some more tea. You can feel all that listening to the album.

I was scared about doing the first album. But for the second, it was fine.

When I arrived in Paris, I dreamed of my father saying: “Go ahead.”

Yes. It means that I, an Algerian woman, sang at the PanAfrican, like Miriam Makeba.

The guembri and I have a bit of history. My father was a Gnawa master and I wasn’t allowed to touch this instrument. When I dared to do so, I was beaten.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hasna El Becharia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.