Ana Fil Houb ♫ Lili Boniche (with translated english lyrics)

From the album “Trésors de la chanson Judéo-Arabe“ 2001 Lili Boniche (Élie Boniche, 1921 -- March 6, 2008) was a Algerian 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 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 in-demand singer throughout France in the 1940s and during wartime