Ana Fil Houb Lili Boniche (with translated english lyrics)

From the album Trésors de la chanson JudéoArabe 2001 Lili Boniche (Élie Boniche, 1921 March 6, 2008) was a Algerian singer of AndalusianArab music. Boniche was the heir to an erudite, centurieslong tradition of Algerian song and a pillar of FrancoArab music. Born into a Sephardic Jewish family in the Casbah area of Algiers, Boniche was a child prodigy who taught himself to play his father s mandola at the age of seven. Later as an indemand singer throughout France in the 1940s and during wartime