Lili Boniche

Lili Boniche (born Élie Boniche; April 29, 1922 – March 6, 2008) was a French singer of Andalusian-Arab music. Boniche was the heir to an erudite, centuries-long tradition of Algerian song and a pillar of Franco-Arab music.

Born into a Sephardic Jewish family in the Casbah of Algiers, Boniche was a child prodigy who taught himself to play his father's mandola at the age of seven. Later as an in-d… More