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Mustapha Skandrani

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Mustapha Skandrani

Born November 17, 1920 · Algiers, Algeria

Died October 18, 2005 · aged 84

Mustapha Skandrani (in arabic : مصطفى سكندراني), born on November 17, 1920 in the Casbah of Algiers in an Algiers family, and died on October 18, 2005 at his home, is a pianist, performer and composer of Algerian Chaâbi music and Arab-Andalusian music. Mustapha grew up and studied up to the elementary certificate in the Casbah, where he was born near the sea and the port of Algiers. Sid-Ali, his…

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The Unexpected PartyThe Unexpected Party · 1953
The Unexpected Party
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This musical comedy produced in 1953 for the General Government of Algeria, features the comic trio composed of Rouiched, Mohamed Touri and Sid Ali Fernandel, accompanied by the orchestra of the master of the Algiers Chaâbi El Hadj M'hamed El Anka, the singer Fadhéla Dziria, Mustapha Skandrani on the piano. Some scenes were filmed at the Summer Palace (the current Palace of the Algerian Presidency, called the People's Palace). André Zwobada, the director, will play an important role after the independence of Algeria in 1962, in the production and preservation of the first Algerian newsreels.

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