IDIR

The most famous Amazigh musicians produced by the Algerian tribal region.  He is the ambassador of the Amazigh song in the world.  He combined local and western rhythms with a thousand and richly printed pieces with a deep human sense that opened up his global horizons.  His unique path has taken him from the worlds of geology and oil to the finest music platforms. Birth and upbringing Idir (whose real name is Hamid Cherit) was born in 1949 in a remote village in the upper Jarjara mountains, called Ait Lahcine, located deep in Algeria's Amazigh tribal region, 35 kilometers from Tizi Ouzou, the capital of the great tribes.  His father was a shepherd and grew up in a family printed in Amazigh culture. "I was lucky to have my grandmother and poet mother. People were coming from afar to listen to them," Idir said in an interview. Study and training I discovered his musical talents in elementary school where the natural science professor directed him to learn to play guitar.  However, Eder remained focused on his studies, which he continued to specialize in the geology division, where he was supposed to enter his career in the petroleum sector, but eventually surrendered to the passion for art and the need to express himself through singing and music. Technical experience "In a society dominated by oral culture, the word has great value," said Idir in a press statement summarizing his cultural and artistic reference in his Amazigh village. Since his childhood, he has been tied to the art of the word with its traditional heritage depth, rhythm and poetry, but the beginning of professionalism was by chance beginning in 1973, when a sick artist compensated in the performance of a children's song on the radio, which drew attention to the beauty of his voice heard by his mother without  She knows it's her son's voice. The same year he went on to perform military service and after his return he recorded the song, which is still the turn of his works, "Avava Innova", in the studio of the Amazigh channel in Algiers.  The song commemorates the Amazigh legend of a girl called a stranger, who remains throughout the day in the forest gathering fruits for her old father and her younger brothers, if the evening comes back to her father's house tired. He touched the door. So, Sheikh Inova, does the door open or not for fear of the forest monster?  The old Innova agrees with his strange daughter to shake her bracelets to make sure she is his daughter.  She enters the house and throws into the arms of her old father and sings her song. In 1979, Eder returned the experience by writing a series of songs included in his second album, "Mayash Enag".  After the resounding success of the beginnings, especially with Avava Innova, which was the first piece of music from North Africa achieved global. The 1980s was a period of protest for Eder before he returned to the studios in 1991, re-recording 17 songs from the first two albums.  He held a successful concert in Paris in February 1992 to classify the Algerian artist's style as "World Music". In 1993, he began a new work introduced by the world of professionalism with the band Blue Silvery by employing musical rhythms including guitar, flute and organ, as well as Darbouka.  Eder climbed the platform of the famous Olympia Hall for three days in a row. In his artistic choices, Idir is committed to a sense of commitment, human sense, clinging to identity, land and memory, and participated on 22 January 1995 in a ceremony for peace within the framework of the association "Life of Algeria", headed by Cheb Khaled. He was also present in honoring the icon of the Amazigh song "Matoub wa Nass" who was assassinated in 1998. His titles and albums may reflect this spirit, such as "The Little Village", "Algeria in My Heart", "Identities: Two Rivers, One Dream" and "France in Color". "Eder is not a singer like the others. He is a member of every family," said French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.  He remained in production given the length of his career, because, as he once said, he was unable to write about things he did not live