Louisa Tounsia

Louisa Tounsia, born Louisa Saadoun, was a Tunisian singer. Active from the mid-1920s until the 1960s, she became one of the first North African performers to achieve wide prominence in the Maghreb and France. Her repertoire included both Tunisian subgenres of traditional Arabo-Andalusian music as well as modern styles of popular Arabic music, which she recorded for major record companies of her time.