Cheikha Remitti

Biography

Cheikha Remitti (in arabic : شيخة ريميتي), or simply called Rimitti, whose real name is Sadia Bedief, born on May 8, 1923 in Tessala, near Sidi-Bel-Abbès, in Algeria, and died on May 15, 2006 in Paris 18e, is an Algerian musician and singer of raï. She was nicknamed the "Granny of Raï", of which she was the major female and feminist figure in the history of music in North Africa.

Cheikha Remitti was born in Algeria in Tessala (a town located near Sidi Bel-Abbès, in Oranie) on May 8, 1923. She is originally from Ammi Moussa, Wilaya of Relizane of the large Berber tribe Beni-Ouragh. Cheikha Rimitti was one of the first women to sing, like men, to a background of gasba flute and long galal dru...