Nass El Ghiwane

Nass El Ghiwane (Arabic: نَاس ٱلْغِيوَان) is a Moroccan musical group, born in the 1970s in Casablanca in the Hay Mohammadi neighbourhood, one of the city's neighbourhoods richest in intellectual and cultural diversity, initially made up of six musicians: Laarbi Batma, Allal Yaâla, Moulay Abdelaziz Tahiri (a pioneer of the Nass El Ghiwane and Jil Jilala movements), Omar Sayed, Raifak Redouane, Mohamed Akhdim and Boujmîa Hagour.

Another member, one of the founders of the musical group named LRFAG, from the Sidi Bernousi neighbourhood of Casablanca, Chifa Abdelkrim, a great Banjou composer and teacher, replaced Allal in 2007.