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| birth_name = Habiba HabibaMarguerite Messika
| birth_date = 1903 <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people - supply only the year unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people that have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. -->
| birth_place = TestourHafsiya jewish quarter of Tunis
| death_date = February 21, 1930 <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) -->
| death_place = Alfred Durand-Claye street, Tunis
| nationality = Tunisian
| other_names = حبيبة مسيكة
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Born Marguerite Msika, she was the niece of singer [[Leila Sfez]].
 
She quickly climbed the ladder of fame under the pseudonym Habiba ("beloved"). Prototype of the free, and master of her destiny, charismatic singer and daring actress, adored by Aboriginalthe Tunisian population, Msika was a social phenomenon in her time. The film ''[[The Fire Dance]]'' by [[Salma Baccar]] talks about her career.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yv1BH5Wz-ekC&pg=PA378&dq=Habiba+Msika&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj69aza3rbKAhXMWz4KHZJIBgYQ6AEILTAC#v=onepage&q=Habiba%2520Msika&fpg=falsePA378|publisher = American Univ in Cairo Press|date = 2005-01-01|isbn = 9789774249433|first = Rebecca|last = Hillauer}}</ref>
 
== Life ==
 
=== Youth ===
She was born in the Jewish quarter of Tunis in a poor family. HisHer parents, Daida and Maïha, worked in the wire trade.
 
She learned to read and write in the school of the Israelite covenantAlliance, which she left after seven years to follow, through the help of her aunt, singing lessons, music theory and classical Arabic with the famous composer [[Khemaïs Tarnane]] and Egyptian tenor [[Hassan Bannan]].
 
She married her cousin Victor Chetboun but their union lasted a short time.
 
Her first recital was held at the palace of [[El Marsa (Tunisia)|La Marsa]], where she met her Pygmalion and lover: the Minister[[Ministry deof lathe PlumePen]].
 
=== Career ===
It was fromIn 1920 that her career took off; she became a sex symbol and initiated the phenomenon of "soldiers of the night", the nickname for her fans, mostly young dandies of Tunisia.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=kRR2fBv2NhUC&q=habiba+msika|title= African Cinema: Postcolonial and Feminist Readings|publisher= Africa World Press|date= 1999|isbn= 9780865436978}}</ref>
 
It was at this time that she went with her lover to Paris, where through him she met [[Pablo Picasso]] and [[Coco Chanel]].
 
In March 1925, she playedinterpreted Romeo in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' at the Ben Kamla theatre.
 
=== EndDeath ===
On the morning of February 20, 1930, heran obsessive fan, an older formerman lovernamed Eliyahu Mimouni entered her apartment in Alfred Durand-Claye street in Tunis, and attackedset her on fire. Badly burned, she died the next day, followed soon after by Mimouni. Msika is buried in the cemetery of Borgel in Tunis.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Rough Guide to Tunisia|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=k2By-NdV93AC&pg=PR127&dq=Habiba+Msika&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY6cWt3rbKAhVDWj4KHUxVAwoQ6AEIIDAA#v=onepage&q=Habiba%2520Msika&fpg=falsePR127|publisher = Rough Guides|date = 2001-01-01|isbn = 9781858287485|firstfirst1 = Daniel|lastlast1 = Jacobs|first2 = Peter|last2 = Morris}}</ref>
[[File:Borgel cemetery 15052018 002.jpg|thumb|Habiba Msika's tomb in the cemetery of Borgel]]
 
== References ==
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== Sources ==
* {{Citation |language=fr |author=[[Jeanne Faivre d'Arcier]] |title=''Habiba Messika: la brûlure du péché'' |editor=Belfond |place=Paris |year=1998 |isbn =}}
* {{Citation |language=fr |author=Ahmed Hamrouni |title= ''Habiba Msika: artiste accomplie'' |editor=L'Univers du livre |place=Tunis |year=2007 |isbn=}}
* {{Citation |language=en |author=Silver |first=Chris |title=The Life and Death of North Africa's First Superstar |date=24 April 2018 |url=https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/life-and-death-north-africas-first-superstar |work=History Today |editor= |place= |year=2018}}
*http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2013/11/10-taboo-arabic-songs-habiba-msika.html▼
 
== External links ==
▲* [http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2013/11/10-taboo-arabic-songs-habiba-msika.html 10 taboo Arabic songs: Habiba Msika]
 
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