Biyouna
Date of birth: 1952-09-13
Place of birth: Alger, Algeria
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Baya Bouzar
Biography
Baya Bouzar (Arabic: باية بوزار; born September 13, 1952), known by the stage name Biyouna (بيونة), is an Algerian singer, dancer, and actress born in Belcourt, now known as Belouizdad, Algiers, Algeria. Having a very early passion for singing, she was a member of several groups : first in Fadhéla Dziria's group where she played tambourine, another that she directed with her partner Flifla, and finally her own where she was the main vocalist and became sought after for wedding receptions. At the age of 17, she began performing in some of the biggest cabarets in the city and at 19 started dancing at the Copacabana. That same year, the director Mustapha Badie gave her a singing part in his first soap opera, La Grande Maison (1973), where she played Fatma. This show was adapted from a novel by Mohamed Dib. She became well-known thanks to this role. She appeared in two Algerian films : Leila and the others, by Sid Ali Mazif in 1978, and The Neighbor, by Ghaouti Bendedouche in 2000. She also performed some one-woman shows. In 1999, Nadir Moknèche offered her the role of Meriem in Madame Osmane's Harem which she produced in France. This film was followed by Viva Laldjéri in 2003. Between 2002 and 2005, Biyouna had success with a trilogy based on the theme of Ramadan called 'Nass Mlah City. She appeared in the last film of Nadir Moknèche, Délice Paloma, where she played the main character, a mafiosa named Madame Aldjeria. In 2006 she performed the role of Coryphée in Sophocles' Elektra beside Jane Birkin in an opera directed by Philippe Calvaio. In 2007 she had a small role in the Algerian film Rendez-vous avec le destin. In 2009, she played La Celestina at the Vingtième Théâtre in Paris. For Ramadan, 2010, Biyouna was one of the stars in a sitcom broadcast on Nessma TV, Nsibti Laaziza. Meanwhile, she was continuing her singing career and in 2001 issued the album Raid Zone, produced with the composer John Bagnolett. After the success of this album and her participation in Jérome Savary's Opéra de Casbah she brought out another album called Blonde dans la casbah. She had been planning this album for some time. Biyouna took her time, carefully choosing a Franco-Algerian repertoire which explored both cultures. She lives with her husband and four children in a suburb of Algiers
Movie Credits
Children of the Sun
1991-01-01
Holiday
2010-12-08
After a crazy and tumultuous night embellished with singular encounters, Michel's awakening is bruta
Les Vacances de l'apprenti
1999-01-01
The former teammate of the famous Inspector Tahar, "the Apprentice" turned Inspector Yahia, will con
The Source
2011-11-02
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withh
Délice Paloma
2007-07-11
Atop 17 flights of stairs, Madame Aldjeria rules over a crew of beautiful young women with the help
La Voisine
2002-01-01
Directed by Ghaouti Bendedouche.
Hassan Terro au Maquis
1978-01-01
While trying by all means to stay out of the bloody turmoil caused by the Battle of Algiers, Hassan,
Aïcha : Vacances infernales
2012-06-20
Viva Algeria
2004-04-07
This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundame
Cheba Louisa
2013-05-08
30-year-old Djemila, a single jurist, at last has her own apartment... a few steps away from her par
Mohamed Dubois
2013-05-01
Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out w
Beur Blanc Rouge
2006-05-17
Le match France - Algérie vient chambouler le train-train de Brahim et Mouloud. Cet évènement va div
On va manquer !
2018-05-15
The Harem of Madame Osmane
2000-07-12
In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem
Take-Away Romance
2014-05-28
Amelle and Noom are two young thirties are total opposites and that fate will bring. Serious She man
The Casbah of Algiers
1993-01-01
The daily life and tribulations of colorful residents in the millennial popular district of the Casb
Leila and the Others
1977-01-02
The story of Algerian women trying to live in 1970s Algeria where the society is between conservativ
Aïcha : La grande débrouille
2011-09-07
Rid of her rival Gloria, Aïcha will do everything to make her boss proud, with Ginette's help. Patri
Aïcha : Job à tout prix
2011-03-02
Aïcha
2009-05-13
A few miles from Paris, on the other side of the northern ring road, stands a ghetto neighborhood wi
Where Fig Trees Grow
2005-11-01
An ensemble piece set in a North African neighbourhood in Toulon.
Bacon on the Side
2010-10-27
Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic rel
I Still Hide to Smoke
2017-04-26
Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian ha
La voyante
2014-09-16
Véra Bellini fights with her psychic friends for their gift to be recognized by medicine. But her op
Belleville Cop
2018-10-17
When a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baa
Tomboy
2008-12-16
One morning Noureddine, who always considered himself a little boy, discovers that his mother Fatima
The Age of the Stateless
2018-05-22
Sira, a former refugee, works as a translator for OFPRA (the French Office for the Protection of Sta
Neuilly sa mère, sa mère !
2018-08-08
In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everyt
Bay of Algiers
2012-06-26
The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives wi
The Three Brothers: The Return
2014-02-12
Three brothers are reunited on the occasion of the death of his mother. The three are in a difficult
يد الساحرة
An old lady and her daughter have murdered a child for witchcraft purposes. The witch's trial nearly