WAbderrahmane Abdelli is a Berber author, composer, and singer songwriter known for mixing the traditional North African music of his homeland with modern sounds.
WMouha Oulhoussein Achiban, also referred to as Oulhoucine or Oulhouceine, was a Moroccan singer and dancer born in El Kbab in 1916 and died on 19 February 2016 in El Kbab.
WHouria Aïchi is an Algerian Berber singer of chaoui music. Aïchi sings songs that she learnt in her childhood, accompanied by bendir.
WLounis Aït Menguellet is an Algerian singer born on January 17, 1950 in Ighil Bouammas, Tizi Ouzou Province in the Kabylie region. Lounis Aït Menguellet sings in the berber language and is certainly one of the most popular and charismatic artists of the contemporary kabyle music scene.
WMarie-Louise-Taos Amrouche was an Algerian writer and singer. In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel.
WEl Hadj M'Hamed El Anka, also known as Hadj Muhammed Al Anka, El-Hadj M'Hamed El Anka, was considered a Grand Master of Andalusian classical music and Algerian chaâbi music.
WHassan Arsmouk is a Moroccan Amazigh singer who was born in a small Chleuh tribe in Tiznit Province.
WSlimane Azem was an Algerian singer and poet, born in Agouni Gueghrane ,that composed hundreds of songs in more than 40 years of artistic life. A great connoisseur and admirer of the poet Si Mohand, Slimane Azem included in his songs different isefra by this author.
WIsam Bachiri is a Danish vocalist, rapper and songwriter formerly of the hip hop group Outlandish. As of recent years, he is a solo artist.
WDania Ben Sassi, Tamazight: Danya At Sasi, Arabic: دانيا بن ساسي is a Libyan Amazigh singer whose music went viral during the First Libyan Civil War, due to the fact her music praises Amazigh resistance and are sung in Tamazight.
WOmara "Bombino" Moctar is a Nigerien Tuareg singer-songwriter and guitarist. His music is sung in Tamasheq and often address geopolitical concerns in Turag. He is also a lead member of Group Bombino. Bombino is the subject of the documentary film Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion.
WBoualem Boukacem, is a singer of Kabyle music within Algerian music.
WMohamed Boumerdassi, was considered a Grand Master of Bedouin music, Malhun and Algerian music.
WAïssa Djermouni or Aïssa El Jermouni or Aissa Merzougui or Aïssa L'Jarmouni (1886–1946) is an Algerian poet and a singer of Berber origin.
WDahmane El Harrachi, , was an Algerian Chaâbi singer of Chaoui origin. His song Ya Rayah made him the best exported and most translated Chaabi artist.
WHamid Cheriet, better known by his stage name Idir or Yidir, was a Kabyle singer and musician. Initially training to be a geologist, his interest for music was piqued when he was called to sing on state radio as a late substitute. After finishing his compulsory military service, he moved to France in 1975 and embarked on his career in music. Idir took a hiatus during the 1980s before returning in 1993. He was a passionate advocate of the Kabyle and Berber cultures.
WAmazigh Kateb is an Algerian singer and musician.
WCherifa Kersit is a Moroccan singer in the genre of Tamawayt. Cherifa sings in Central Atlas Tamazight.
WMohamed Belaid, widely known as Rays Lhaj Belaid, was a Moroccan singer-poet (ṛṛays) and rebab player. He sang in Tachelhit. He is considered to be one of the first essential figures of rways, poetry and rebab players in the musical tradition of Shilha people.
WLorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, known professionally as Loreen, born 16 October 1983) is a Swedish pop singer and music producer. Representing Sweden, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, with her entry "Euphoria". The song reached number one in several countries, including Germany and Sweden. At the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, she sang as the opening act in the first semi-final and as the interval act in the grand final.
WSouad Massi, born August 23, 1972, is an Algerian Berber singer, songwriter and guitarist. She began her career performing in the Kabyle political rock band Atakor, before leaving the country following a series of death threats. In 1999, Massi performed at the Femmes d'Algérie concert in Paris, which led to a recording contract with Island Records.
WLounès Matoub was a famous Algerian Kabylian singer, poet, thinker who sparked an intellectual revolution, and mandole player who was a prominent advocate of the Berber cause, human rights and secularism in Algeria throughout his life.
WAmmouri M'barek was the renovator of the Moroccan Amazigh (Berber) Music, was born in 1951 in Irguiten, a small village located at the bottom of the High Atlas near Taroudannt town, in Taroudannt Province, Morocco.
WFerhat Mehenni, also known as Ferhat Imazighen Imula, is a Kabyle artist, a political activist and the founder and first President of the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia. Since June 1, 2010, he has been the President of the Provisional Government of Kabylia, a government in exile that the movement set up in France. He has been a Laureate of the Gusi Peace Prize since July 23, 2013.
WMahamadou Souleymane, known professionally as Mdou Moctar is a Tuareg songwriter and musician based in Agadez, Niger, and is one of the first musicians to perform modern electronic adaptations of Tuareg guitar music. He first became famous through a trading network of cellphones and memory cards in West Africa.
WHadda Ouakki is a Moroccan singer in the genre of Tamawayt. Ouakki sings in Central Atlas Tamazight, and is described as one of the divas of the Amazigh music.
WMohamed Rouicha was a Moroccan folk singer. His songs often contain themes such as love and life in Morocco. His most famous songs are "Ya lehbiba", "bini w'binek darou lehdouden" and "Inas inas".
WFatima Tabaamrant is a Moroccan Berber actress and singer-songwriter. She sings and performs in her native Berber tongue.
WAicha Tachinouite is a Moroccan Shilha singer and dancer. She sings and performs mainly in Tashelhit, her native Berber tongue.
WHacène Zermani, known by the stage name Takfarinas, is an Algerian Kabyle Yal musician. Takfarinas took his surname from the ancient warrior of North Africa Tacfarinas who fought against the presence of the Romans in Algeria. Since 1979 Takfarinas has lived in France. However, his songs promote and celebrate the Kabyle culture into which he was born. Takfarinas is perhaps best known for his voice which covers a wide range and the 'takfa' which is based on a traditional lute like instrument which he has modified by adding a second neck. Each neck provides a distinct sound, one neck is feminine and the other masculine. Nowadays the takfa has been replaced by an electric half-drum mandole. Like the takfa this has two fingerboards. The advantage of this new instrument is that it is able to create the large concert sound which he now needs.
WOmar Wahrouch was a Moroccan singer-poet (ṛṛays) and songwriter. He wrote and sang in Tashelhit.