Tayssir Akla
# Tayssir Akla

Tayssir Akla (c. 1939 – 2016) was a Syrian-born, Algerian-based composer.

## Early life

Tayssir Akla was born in Syria circa 1939. He emigrated to Algeria in 1962.

## Career

Akla conducted the orchestra of the Algerian Radio in 1970. He composed songs about the Algerian War, including Ana el Djazair and Thawrat al ahrar, performed by Saliha Essaghira.

## Personal life and death

Akla married Nadia Kerbache, an Algerian singer of Syrian descent. He became a widow when she died in 2010. Akla died six years later, on November 22, 2016, in Brussels, Belgium. Upon his death, Azzedine Mihoubi, the Algerian Minister of Culture, called him a "big composer adopted by Algeria".

