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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Algeria
- Active from
- 1912-07-27
- Active to
- 1961-06-22
Discography
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- Listeners
- 117
- Total plays
- 685
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Raymond Leyris better known as Cheikh Raymond, (born on 27 July 1912 and assassinated in Constantine, French Algeria on 22 June 1961) was a renowned Algerian Jewish musician. He specialized in Andalusian music of Eastern Algeria (known as malouf) and was an expert virtuoso player (a "grand master") of oud (the lute) and singer with an exceptional vocal range and widely respected by both Jews and Muslims and given the title of Cheikh (elder) as Cheikh Raymond with the accompanying fame and respec
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Raymond
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Constantine
- Place of death
- Constantine
- Languages spoken
- French
- Instrument
- oud
- Image
- Identite-CheikhRaymond-1953-Sacem.png
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- date of birth
- 1912-07-27
- date of death
- 1961-06-22
- pseudonym
- الشيخ ريمون
- birth name
- Raymond Raoul Leyris
- relative
- Enrico Macias
- manner of death
- homicide
- place of burial
- Constantine
- Commons category
- Cheikh Raymond
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