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Lili Boniche
A radio host at the age of fifteen, and a popular singer in Algeria where he
blended Arabo-Andalusian or chââbi styles with the fashions of the day, Lili
Boniche was the last representative of a rich Judeo-Arabo-Andalusian tradition.
After suspending his career in the nineteen-fifties to devote himself to
business, Lili Boniche was rediscovered in 1998 with the album Alger, Alger,
produced by Bill Laswell, on which he recorded his greatest hits. Enjoying a
veritable cult following among Algerian repatriates and the Sephardic community,
Lili Boniche awakens nostalgia for a period ...
