 By the late 1950s, however, it had become the people's music, played at weddings and religious festivals.Its main exponents included Oran based singer , El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka, the father of Chaabi, and Dahmane El Harrachi, composer of the classic tale of emigration Ya Rayah.In 2011, Safinez Bousbia directed a documentary on chaabi music.