Blaoui Houari
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Algeria
- Active from
- 1926-01-23
- Active to
- 2017-07-19
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Blaoui Houari (الهواري بلاوي Oran, Algeria, 23 January 1926 – 19 July 2017) was an Algerian singer-songwriter, composer and conductor. Over the course of his career, he recorded over 900 songs and released over 100 albums. Blaoui Houari was born in Oran, Western Algeria, then French Algeria. His father, who owned a bar in Oran, played the Kwitra. Houari left school at 13 to work for his father. Houari began his career as a singer-songwriter in the 1940s, when he first played music at weddings a
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Oran
- Place of death
- Oran
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Instrument
- guitar
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- Blaoui Houari.jpg
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- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1926-01-23
- date of death
- 2017-07-19
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1940-00-00
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