Tayssir Akla

Akla conducted the orchestra of the Algerian Radio in 1970.^[1][2] He composed songs about the Algerian War, including Ana el Djazair and Thawrat al ahrar, performed by Saliha Essaghira.^[1][2]

Akla married Nadia Kerbache, an Algerian singer of Syrian descent.^[1][2] He became a widow when she died in 2010.^[1][2] Akla died six years later, on November 22, 2016, in Brussels, Belgium.^[1][2] Upon his death, Azzedine Mihoubi, the Algerian Minister of Culture, called him a "big composer adopted by Algeria".^[1][2]