Moroccan Folk Music Icon Abderrazak Baba Dies from COVID-19 at 59

The information was made public by the family. The pioneer of the Marrakech dakka died "an hour after being admitted to the intensive care unit of the Mohammed VI University Hospital in Marrakech," his son told the MAP.

Abderrazak Baba was born in 1964 in the Bab Jdid neighborhood of the Medina of Marrakech into a family passionate about the Marrakech dakka. His father, Ahmed Bab, was also a great artist, and it was from him that he learned the Marrakech dakka. He was appreciated for "his modesty, his generosity and his defense of the preservation of this ancestral heritage, whose promotion and enhancement have earned him several distinctions".

The deceased regularly participated in the National Festival of Popular Arts (FNAP) and the major national festivals. He also took part in major international festivals in France, Belgium, Italy and Norway, the same source said.