Abdelkader Meksa

Abdelkader Meksa ( amazigh :Meksa Ɛebdelqader , arabic : عبد القادر ميكسا), born June 4, 1954 in Mira (Timizart) in Algeria and died October 30, 1988 in Créteil (France), at the age of 34, is an Algerian singer of Kabyle expression. He is buried in his native village, next to his parents.

Abdelkader Meksa arrived in Paris in October 1976, where he met Nathalie, a musician. They both settled in Épinay-sur-Seine, and had two children, a boy born in 1979 named Darius who died as a baby, and a girl named Floriane-Missiva born in 1980.

Abdelkader Meksa, is a storyteller and singer, who narrates the history of Numidia in songs. He is the author of famous songs such as "Massinissa", "Loundja", "Tafsut", which earned him notable success in the 1980s. He played a leading role in the revitalization of Berber song in the 1970s, and this in the movement of renewal of modern song led by Idir, Ferhat, Chenoud, Djamel Allam, Les Abranis, Inasliyen, Tagrawla, Brahim Izri, Nabet, etc.

He died on October 30, 1988 in obscure circumstances after falling down the stairs of a bar in Créteil. Taken by the police to a drunk tank without a prior medical examination, he was taken to the hospital too late, when the police found that he was unresponsive.