Legendary Moroccan Singer Abdelouahab Doukkali Honored in Star-Studded Rabat Concert

A tribute befitting the immense talent of Abdelwahab Doukkali. Several singers celebrated the dean of Moroccan song at the Mohammed V Theater in Rabat last Friday. Singer Najat Rajoui opened the show by performing a set of classic Moroccan songs that transported the audience back to the golden age. The audience fervently sang along to songs such as "Kan Ya Ma Kan", "Ma Ana Illa Bachar", "Souq Al Bashariyah" and "Ana Wal Ghorba".

Moroccan singer Najat Rajoui also took the stage. She performed the most beautiful classic songs of several pioneers, including Fathallah El Maghari, Bahija Idriss and Maâti Benkacem. In a statement to the Al Omk website, she expressed her joy in sharing the stage with a great musician like Doukkali. She confided that she had coordinated with him to make this evening one hundred percent Moroccan. Hind Tazi, organizer of the tribute concert, also does not hide her joy: "I am happy that my first experience took place with musician Abdelouahab Doukkali, one of the icons of Moroccan song."

Abdelwahab Doukkali is full of gratitude. In a statement to the same site, he expressed his joy in reuniting with his audience at the Mohammed V Theater, a place that has witnessed many experiences he has lived through in his artistic career and which have remained etched in his memory. "This stage has welcomed the greatest stars of song in the Arab world," he said, noting that his audience, composed of a circle of respectable families, reacted enthusiastically to his songs from his entrance on stage until the last moments of his performance. The dean of Moroccan music did not hide his pride in seeing them sing with him and perform his works like a true choir behind him.

Doukkali chose to conclude his concert with the Sufi chant "Allah Hay". Why this choice? According to the singer’s explanations, it’s a work that deeply touches him. "The world did not last for Pharaoh, Haman, nor for the greatest philosophers, writers and poets of the world, because eternity belongs to God alone," he added.