Kamel El Harrachi

Kamel Amrani, known by the stage name Kamel El Harrachi (in Arabic: كمال الحراشى), born in Algeria in 1973, is an Algerian chaâbi singer and composer, mandola player. Kamel El Harrachi is an artist, author, composer, performer, Sevranais born in Algeria, of Chaoui origin from the village Djellal in the wilaya of Khenchela, his grandfather settled in Algiers in 1920 and became muezzin at the great mosque. After the birth of his father Dahmane El Harrachi (diminutive of Abderrahmane), the family settled in Belcourt, rue Maret, then settled permanently in El Harrach, hence the etymology of his stage name. Kamel has never stopped following in his father's footsteps since his childhood, in 1991 he also took up the stage name like his father El Harrachi in order to perpetuate his memory. He has lived in Paris since the early 1990s. He participates in the evolution of classical Chaâbi music which is noted in his first album "Ghana Fennou" which literally means "he sang his art", covering ti...