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Zohra Al Fassiya ((アラビア語:زهرة الفاسية), (ヘブライ語:זוהרה אלפסיה)) is a Moroccan singer and poet.〔http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/big-in-tetouan-the-jewish-women-who-pioneered-modern-arab-music.premium-1.524844〕 Considered as the queen of melhoun and gharnati, she was the first female recording artist in Morocco, and her songs was celebrated specially in Morocco and Algeria, where she collaborated with lyricists and musicians from Oran and Tlemcen. If her songs were mostly profane songs, her work has been modified to be fit religious lythurgical songs (called piyutim). Born in Sefrou, near Fez, at the feet of the mountains of Atlas in a modest Moroccan Jewish family, she started to sing at a very early age when she performed religious songs at her synagogue. During her youth, she started to sing in coffee houses and cabarets near towns and in Casablanca. Her songs were mostly secular gharanti songs (Andalusian Arabic songs originally from Granada, Spain, and very popular among the Muslims of Andalusian background and Moroccan and Algerian Jews in the 19th century), as well as Malhun, which are long Moroccan poems. In the 40's, she had her own orchestra and started to register her own songs. She was heavily aired on radio stations, both in Morocco and Algeria. The Sultan of Morocco, Mohammed V, was so impressed by her voice that he invited her to sing at his court. She worked with other artists such as Samy Elmaghribi, who wrote some of her songs. She has released more than 17 albums between the years 1947-1957 . In 1962, she immigrated to Israel and lived in miserable and lonely condition in Ashkelon. Israeli-Moroccan poet Erez Biton, who visited her, was very impressed by her fate and dedicated her a poem that is learned in school today. In her last years she lived in a nursing home. Elfassia invited many celebrations of the Moroccan community in Israel and had many relatives in Israel. Zohra died at age 89 in 1994 and was buried in Ashkelon. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zohra Al Fassiya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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