Mustapha Skandrani (in arabic : مصطفى سكندراني), born on November 17, 1920 in the Casbah of Algiers in an Algiers family, and died on October 18, 2005 at his home, is a pianist, performer and composer of Algerian Chaâbi music and Arab-Andalusian music. Mustapha grew up and studied up to the elementary certificate in the Casbah, where he was born near the sea and the port of Algiers. Sid-Ali, his father and his two uncles Hamoud and Lahabib were passionate about Andalusian classical music. It w ...