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Hmida playing guitar.
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H'mida
(Solo Guitar)
Hmida's
musical background is influenced by a multitude of styles ranging
from Rock, Classical and Latin Jazz, French contemporary songs, Flamenco
and New Age as well as Andalusian music. He started playing with a
band during his university years in Algeria where he experimented
with modern Algerian-Andalusian music styles. After coming to the
US, where he has been for the past twenty years, he settled in Washington
D.C in 1991 where he started a band that played mostly Berber and
French songs at events organized by Algerians living in the D.C, area.
As Meziane, the Chaabi singer, joined "Andalusia", he found an opportunity
and a challenge to modernize the traditional Chaabi music; the resulting
music is a wonderful blend between the unpredictable tempos of Algerian
Chaabi and the rhythms of western and Latin music. His passion for
music is expressed through numerous instrumental pieces that he has
created and arranged with the Band such as Cirta, Blaoui's Danza (or
indicatif), Andalusian Bolero (or Cirta II), Sunset or "the lights
that gave me tears" and the "Cartenna ballad" (African flamenco).
He has got many musical ambissions, most of which him and his new
band (Karim, and Meziane)will turn to success.
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