"Nas El Ghiwane" was a one-of-a-kind musical sensation that resurrected Moroccan popular culture.
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group "Nas El Ghiwane" was founded in the late 1960s in one of Casablanca's poorest areas. It used actual language from folklore and rudimentary musical instruments in its songs, and a few years later, it became Morocco's most important musical sensation.
What explains the group's enormous popularity as it pursued a committed artistic approach is that it remained committed to the voice of the poor and oppressed who did not dare to publicly express their suffering during a period of restrictions on freedoms in Morocco between the 1970s and 1990s, as it accompanied the Arab nation's concerns and the tragedies of the African continent.
Foundation
Despite being affected, like the rest of their generation, by the winds of the wave of liberation that swept the world in the 1960s, as well as the simplicity of their academic level, the members of the group were imbued with popular culture and relied on "zajal" from popular cultural heritage in the majority of their songs. Their goal was not to gain fame or money, but to speak up for the underprivileged and argue for a strong sense of self.
The "Nas El Ghiwane" group not only offered a forum for expressing dissatisfaction with the current socioeconomic condition, but it also caused a musical revolution in form and substance, and it was the first group to pay attention to popular art, which had been mostly ignored for decades.
The song "Siniya"
In terms of the level of identification conviction and eagerness to cling to real folk culture, the band formed in an attempt to recreate the social integration that French colonialism demolished, and it served as an example for the rest of the Maghreb's young.
In terms of the level of identification conviction and eagerness to cling to real folk culture, the band formed in an attempt to recreate the social integration that French colonialism demolished, and it served as an example for the rest of the Maghreb's young.
At one point in their journey, the late playwright Al-Tayeb Al-Siddiqi provided the cultural context for the band members. Their training in "Al-Bassat Theater" (an traditional theatrical form centered on merging diagnosing and singing) helped them grasp the art of recitation and audience communication, which they excelled in during the competition. One of the most important plays in the country's history is "Al-Haraz."
"They are actors who sing, not singers in the classic sense," Siddiqi explained. However, they stayed away from him after being offended by one of his press speeches in which he referred to his agents as a "field of experimentation."
The band became a little society in itself, and the cultural diversity of its members enhanced its lyrical passages and musical tributaries, while the mystical nature of many of the classic poems it employed provided a spiritual undercurrent that influenced even those who did not understand Arabic.
The level of the band "Nas El-Ghiwane" fell after the departure of most of its founding members, especially since the death of El-Araby Batma, a poet and heritage researcher, in 1997, which resulted in a creative void in the development of lyrics, and as a result, the band was unable to maintain its previous level, and instead mostly repeated its old successful songs, and produced songs that did not live up to its known level.
Who is Nas El Ghiwane's founder?
Boujmeel, Larbi Batma, Omar El-Sayed, Abdelaziz El-Tahri, and Mahmoud El-Saadi created the Nass El Ghiwane Ensemble in the Mohammedi area in the 1960s.
What's the count of Nas El Ghiwane?
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They dropped out of high school and did not pursue music in college. The majority of them grew up in shantytowns and were sprayed with insecticides during the French occupation, but they went on to found Morocco's most famous singing group, "Nas El Ghiwane." Bujameel Ahkor, Arabi Batma, and Abd al-Rahman Baku were among the five who had passed away.
