Ali amran

Born in 1969 in Igariden , a small village in Haute Kabylie in northern Algeria. He became interested in music listening Kabyle singers on the radio or on tapes , for those who were forbidden antenna . he tried to reproduce their melodies on makeshift instruments , blunt instruments made ​​using engine oil and bits of wood as a sleeve cans, any kid who wanted to play music had to make . he nevertheless had the chance to touch a real pretty young instrument : There were at home an old guitar that belonged to his brother and that he eventually " inherit " ... He wrote his first songs at the age of 16 , in the traditional genre. Some have been performed successfully by popular singers as Lani Rabeh or Hamel Slimane . In 1988 , he joined the "Company" Meghres theater at the University of Tizi -Ouzou as a musician for the choir . At the same time , he began to press his first chords of Beatles songs , Idir , Simon and Garfunkel , Moustaki , Cabrel, Inasliyen , Pink Floyd, Abranis , Cat Stevens ... He approached a new way to play guitar, he discovered Western music , harmony ... So, his compositions began to soak up these new influences and take another direction, more folk rock . Also, in parallel to the choir , he began to perform on stage , and the opportunity to drag one of his songs in the repertoire . In 1998, after a small studio experience , concerts, radio broadcasts, punctuated by uncertainty, jobs subsistence 1st prize of the festival of the Amazigh song and especially a passage of three years by the Institute Amazigh Language and Cultures at the University of Tizi- Ouzou magister studies , he returned to music and I recorded 6 songs that will be released on cassette in 2001, a year after il'eut left Algeria ! Meanwhile, he mounts the Tura group to the scene and as a result , they had the 1st prize at the National Festival of Amazigh song and the second music festival Soummam . In the year 2000, ' arrives in France , therefore , guitar in hand. Time to install , hello rehearsal studios ! he first few concerts in solo- guitar and vocals , and then formed a band to play on the biggest stages . In 2004, he moved to Zenith de Paris at the Berber spring , a few months after recording the album Xali Sliman .