The Algerian artist, Kamal Messaoudi, who sang the popular "chaabi" music in the country, was not just a musician who accompanied his country's audience in the darkest stages of the 1990s, but a writer of the pain of a wounded people.

Algeria is witnessing today the 22nd anniversary of the death of the artist Kamal Messaoudi, who was shocked by death at the age of 37, the owner of masterpieces that still represent the stations of nostalgia for an entire generation of Algerians who decided to fulfill the memory of the man committed to the issues of his society, his homeland and even Arab causes.

Kamal Messaoudi is a name that Algerians will never forget, a singer who passed away at the height of his giving, so his artistic messages immortalized him to remain brilliant 22 years after his departure, he sang about mother, homeland, emigration and love.

The poet Yassin O'abed, whose name was associated with the name of Masoudi through the works that they accomplished together, tells Al-Jazeera Net, "He was a human being in every sense of the word. He carried the homeland's concern, and he used to cry with everyone who was in pain, even animals had a share of his heart."

O'abed narrates his last meeting with Masoudi, saying, "We were one day before his departure in the mosque, and at that time the deceased prolonged the prostration so that I imagined him that he had forgotten himself, and when he completed he told me literally (perhaps it will be an hour of response)."

The committed singer

The songs of the late were entrenched in the collective memory of a generation that kept crying the departure of the shy young man whose death still constitutes a shock after two decades of separation.

The groom passed away days before his wedding, not at the hands of terrorist groups that were targeting artists at the time of the "black decade" that the country went through at the time, but rather at the hands of road terrorism, where a terrible traffic accident claimed his life in the winter of 1998.

Kamal Messaoudi established the image of the artist committed to the pain of his generation at the time, he sang for the Algerians who had to flee their country after death followed them and besieged them in every direction.

It suffices to mention the name of Kamal Messaoudi in Algeria so that the praise begins unanimously for a man with whom all tastes met.

"Two Algerians do not disagree on the appreciation of the singer who wrote the half of it and left before completing the verses of his poem about Algeria, which was in dire need of his likes," says his close companion, artist Mohamed El Amrawi.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Amrawi, who compiled dozens of songs with the late Masoudi, says, "In the height of his popularity and giving, the artist Kamal Masoudi left, leaving his memory firmly established in an entire generation."

Masoudi's loyal generation is still searching for him on YouTube pages, and his fans leave comments in the form of letters of gratitude and appreciation, knowing that he will not read them.

Fans of the singer who made the case strive to immortalize his memory so that he will not be forgotten amid the hustle and bustle of the modern art scene, and the Algerians are grateful to the artist, whose latest songs "Apology" and made clear of zuhda, in the wonderful "Al-Dunya" which he presented for the first time on a TV program the day before the accident.

Kamal Masoudi presented his last song as a will. He said in the last verse of the poet Yassin Oabed, "This is my advice. We leave the following. Bash we can conclude the verses with it," where he described the world as "perishable", and how harsh it is for those seeking happiness.

Majida Al Roumi tempted just

The song "The Candle" is one of the artist's masterpieces that he presented at the height of the security crisis that Algeria went through in 1991, when violence and blood exploded. Massoudi sang in it "hope" despite the difficult situation, and it was his first work that brought him to the light of the famous and popular artist.

The artist Kamal Messaoudi (right), Matoub Lounas and Mohamed Al-Amrawi (communication sites)

"The Candle" is the title of the song that Lebanese singer Magda El Roumi re-introduced in memory of Kamal Messaoudi, and when she decided to perform in the Algerian dialect, she put her hand on "wounding millions" of those who missed the singer who "does not smile".

Masoudi said in her words, "My money is money and the money of the candle I have not lost in the darkness of the money of happiness. I will not make me sick," addressing luck, asking him about the reason for turning his back on him, and how does the candle not light the darkness?

Moroccan singer Saad just sang it and redistributed it, and was keen to perform it in all his concerts, along with Hamza Namira and others. "The candle" is not the only song that Algerians have mercy on the spirit of Massoudi for leaving it as their legacy.

The Algerians are still crying, the song "Nujoom Al-Layl", which was re-performed by young people who boarded death boats and chose to emigrate to the unknown to escape their difficult social situation in their country. "I left my country and went to the country of the people, takoo kabadi, night and day, Assass."

"Raed al-Shaabi music" left more than 90 songs distributed over 16 albums, which he performed through an artistic career that began in 1991 and ended with death when Massoudi was surprised on the capital's highway on a rainy night in December 1998.