Oulahlou, whose real name Abderrahmane Lahlou, was born August 9, 1963 at Takorabt, a small village in Kabylia. He received his early education at the village primary school and then college at John Amrouche Ighil Ali. After high school at High School Akbou, he graduated in 1982.
The period coincides with the school's political turmoil and cultural ferment of the Berber Spring, which appears as a high school student taking part in the first street protests that marked the years of intense struggle. This was also the period that takes its first steps into the world of the song containing the tubes at the time engaged on the stage of high school. Graduate school, he made at the University of Constantine, where he prepares a degree in psychology. In parallel, he devoted himself body and soul to music. Opening up new horizons, he was introduced to all styles of music and discover the language and culture in which he immersed himself deeply chaouie. An influence that will result later by some compositions in the typical style and language of the Aures. After obtaining his degree in psychology, he returned and invested in the Kabylia movement at his village. He runs, including a children's choir to which he intended his first musical works.
songwriter and musician by vocation, Oulahlou is a versatile artist who plays well in several musical instruments. It also plays well to the pen in a style sometimes biting, sometimes satirical or poetic, but always off the beaten track of easy rhyme, archetypes and hackneyed expressions, which use and abuse the makers of so many songs today. His art really takes off effect at the end of 1998 when, at the insistence of some friends, he decided finally produce his first album titled''Ithvirène Pigeons.'' Encouraged by the enthusiastic response of an audience that is expanding more and more, it generates momentum on a second cassette of six titles in 1999. The title track, i afouss Bouteflika,''Vive le President,''a great success with an attentive audience that appreciates this more and more uses irony Oulahlou to venture on topics very often at limit of the taboo.
In 2000, he released his third album of Ouchen weydhi,''the wolf and the dog.'' Oul Lahlou maintains its course of libertarian singer returning with humor, sarcasm and tenderness on the subject that he feels most at heart: freedom. The verb direct corrosive, heart on edge, he sang the popular reality made futile quest and bitterness. He wears his song by all the frustrations of the oppressed, the cries of those without words, the roof of the homeless, the wages of the unemployed and the look of hopeless. It is the voice of the excluded and oppressed who refuse to abdicate.
In 2001, her fourth album Assassin Power, which comes just months after the outbreak of the tragic events of Black Spring of Kabylia, is a bombshell. Assassin power literally pulls in record stores and the title immediately became the anthem that the whole region again during public events which draw thousands of marchers. But this does not mean that the success he is gone to his head. It has a popularity despite rising crescendo, remain extremely modest and accessible. It is true that his career remains to be done did not give up this capital for a name. For the rest, he still lives in a family attic walls faded by time and his old mother who is buckling under the weight of years despair to see him leave his hippie habits for a lifetime wiser and more settled.
In 2002, he produced fifth album, Ulac Smah ulac (No Excuse) to pay tribute to the many young Kabyle martyrs killed by the bullets of policemen. He also paid tribute to the passage in protest singer Ferhat, his spiritual father of all time.
Now, new horizons open to him: it occurs in France on the Paris scene by hosting a first gala at La Cigale in September 2003. It was a real triumph.
2005, release of the album''Azul al Paris''(Hello Paris). An album of 12 tracks with a very noticeable inspiration to French singers such as text Brassens, Renaud and Moustaki he adapts metic in Kabyle.
early 2006, he released his seventh album, "N Arraw Tlell" (Children of Freedom), in which he makes a very nice tribute to the famous singer Taos Amrouche through a song called Marguerite soberly. A folk ballad served by a beautiful melody with a local musical preparing very acoustic arpeggios, guitar for accompaniment, flute, bass and a warm voice and serious Oulahlou.
During spring 2006, to commemorate Berber Spring, will occur in several French cities: Paris, Bobigny, Saint Etienne, Marseille before returning to his native Kabylia.
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