Lounès Matoub
Algerian musician (1956-1998) · Musicians · Died at 42
Lounès Matoub is read about 200 times a day, in 20 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to September 18, 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?Lounès Matoub was a Kabyle singer, poet, and thinker who sparked an intellectual revolution, and mandole player who was an advocate of the Amazigh cause, human rights, and secularism in Algeria throughout his life.
Photos 5
Matoub in 1973
Matoub with his Algerian mandole in 1975. He was an Algerian singer of Kabyle music.
Lounès (in the middle with the white shirt) with his friends, notably Mourad Nechab, known to be his favorite, and family in Kabylia.
Matoub's car riddled with bullets during his assassination on 25 June 1998Musicians born in the 1950s 6
About this person
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1956 to 1998 · aged 42
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.