Abdelkader Chaou

Abdelkader Chaou (in Arabic: عبد القادر شاعو) is an Algerian singer, interpreter of Chaâbi. He was born on November 10, 1941 in the Casbah of Algiers, Algeria from a Kabyle family (originally from Azzefoun, Tizi-Ouzou). In 1967 he enrolled at the Algiers conservatory, directed at the time by the master El Hadj M'hamed El Anka, where he learned the subtleties of the Chaâbi repertoire. In 1969, he returned to the Algerian National Theater (TNA) with Mahboub Bati, of whom he was an emeritus student. He made a meteoric breakthrough in the 1970s and two songs: Ghazali Goudami and Lilah Wan Cheftou Koudami would constitute his first professional recordings.