Himmelsk sång: Azemmour med Djurdjura

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Nu har jag hört något helt fantastiskt med sångerskor från Algeriet. Musik av sångerskan Djurdjura, låten Azemmour. Det är unisont varvat med stämsång, a capella. En atmosfärisk sång som i klangen påminner om ungdomskör. Jag har en cd hemma, "Algérie - La Voix des Femmes" och där hittade jag detta spår. Nu ska jag leta fler cd's med Djurdjura.


Jag hittade detta om Djurdjura på nätet och kopierar för att sprida kunskapen, jag hoppas författaren ger mig medgivande och tycker samma sak att fler ska känna till denna fina sångerska. Texten finns på http://zighcult.canalblog.com

"Djurdjura was formed by one woman whose struggles in life turned her into a hero for many young Algerian women, myself included. Djura who was born in the late forties in a remote kabyle (berber) village of Algeria, began her existence on the edge between life and death. Rejected by her mother for being a girl, she was raised by her grand-father's wife, who gave her all the love she lacked from her own mother. In the early 1950's with the encouragement of immigration of North Africans as a source of cheap labor by the French government, Djura's father took his family to France. The family lived in a poor district of Paris called Belleville. Because of his involvment with Algeria's National Liberation Front, Djura's father was imprisoned. This event led the young Djura to help raise her seven younger siblings. Djura's outstanding singing voice gained her solo parts in the school choir, but when she was offered at 16 a main role in a TV series, her father forbade her to take it. To escape an impending arranged marriage and hoping for independance, Djura fled Paris for Algiers where she wrote her first songs. In 1977 she formed the group Djur Djura, named after the Mount Djurdjura near her childhood home, first with her two sisters and later with other young Berber singers, accompained by musicians from North Africa, America, and France. Djura dedicates her songs to "all women who have been deprived of love, knowledge and freedom".

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