Word: guerrouabi
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...DIED. El-Hachemi Guerrouabi, 68, prolific musician who reinvigorated the traditional, lute-based chaabi music of Algeria's casbahs and cafés; in Algiers. Weaving themes from traditional love songs with mystical Sufi texts, Guerrouabi's shortened, jazzy renditions of classical chaabi tunes played to massive crowds in Europe and the Arab world. During Algeria's turbulent 1990s, he fled into exile in Paris, but homesickness and ill health drove him to return in 2004; weakened by diabetes, he played his final concert last summer in Algiers...
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