Nass El Ghiwane

Biography

Nass El Ghiwane (نَاس ٱلْغِيوَان) is a Moroccan musical group, born in the 1970s in Casablanca in the popular Hay Mohammadi district, initially composed of the six musicians Laarbi Batma, Allal Yaâla, Moulay Abdelaziz Tahiri (Pioneer of the Nass El Ghiwane movement and Jil Jilala), Omar Sayed, Raifak Redouane, Mohamed Akhdim and Boujmîa Hagour. Nass El Ghiwane's repertoire is drawn from the melting pot of Moroccan culture and poetry, but also from Sufi texts from great religious figures of Isla...