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Houari Manar (Arabic: هواري منار; ca. 1981 – 7 January 2019) was an Algerian raï singer who was popular in Algeria as well as the neighbouring Maghreb and Mediterranean countries, and in France. Houari Manar was born Houari El Madani in Marseille, France to Algerian parents He moved to Oran, Algeria at age twenty to perform as a raï singer; a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s. Manar became widely popular throughout the Mediterranean and caused a degree of controversy duri
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Algeria
- Place of birth
- Oran
- Place of death
- Hydra
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Genre
- raï
- Instrument
- voice
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- date of birth
- 1981-12-18
- date of death
- 2019-01-07
- name in native language
- هواري مدني
- birth name
- هواري مدني
- manner of death
- accidental death
- cause of death
- medical malpractice
- start of work period
- 2000-00-00
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