Mimoun El Oujdi
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Died (aged 65)
Occupation
- Raï singer
Mimoun El Oujdi ميمون الوجدي | |
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| Born | Mimoun Bakouch ميمون بكوش 4 February 1953 |
| Died | (aged 65) |
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Mimoun El Oujdi (Arabic: ميمون الوجدي) was a Moroccan singer of the Raï genre of music.[1] Like other Maghrebi raï singers, he is habitually given the title "Cheb" (الشاب), meaning "young", and is usually known as Cheb Mimoun El Oujdi (الشاب ميمون الوجدي). He was born Mimoun Bakoush (ميمون بكوش) in Oujda in 1953, fifteen kilometres from the Algerian border. Mimoun El Oujdi released 18 albums between 1982 and 2012, including Barmān (1985), Alamāne (1995) and Soulouh (2008). He died in November 2018.
