Biography
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El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka
Real name: Aït Ouarab Mohamed Idir
Effective period / Period of releases: 1983 - 2006
El Hadj M'hamed El Anka in Arabic (الحاج محمد العنقة), real name Mohamed Idir Aït Ouarab, born in the Casbah of Algiers on the 20 May 1907, is a precursor and master of Algerian Chaâbi song, died on November 23, 1978. His family is from Freha, (in the Kabyle city of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria) and he is the father of Mustapha El Anka, Sid Ali Halo and Abdel Hadi Halo.