Cheika Tetma

Cheikha Tetma, whose real name is Fatéma Tabet, born in 1891 in Tlemcen (Algeria) where she died on April 22, 1962, is an Algerian performer of hawzi music and of the hawfi genre, originally from Tlemcen. Cheikha Tetma is one of those musicians who marked Algerian artistic life in the first half of the 20th century. She was the first woman to sing and organize parties in Tlemcen.