Abdelmadjid Meskoud (Arabic: عبدالمجيد مسكود‎) is an Algerian singer born on March 31, 1953 in the El Hamma district of Belcourt (today Belouizdad) in Algiers, Algeria. A self-taught artist, he is credited with mastering the art of chaâbi music (Algerian musical genre, born in Algiers at the beginning of the 20th century, derived from Arab-Andalusian music from Algiers. "Chaâbi" means "popular" in Arabic , it is one of the most popular musical genres in Algeria. Abdelmadjid Meskoud, who never went to music school, began in 1969 to strum his f…