{"id":147949,"date":"2025-11-04T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=interviews&#038;p=147949"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:30:15","slug":"fma-2025-amine-benarqia-the-master-of-the-guembri","status":"publish","type":"interviews","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/fma-2025-amine-benarqia-the-master-of-the-guembri\/","title":{"rendered":"FMA 2025 | Amine Benarqia, the master of the guembri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>He is half Moroccan, half Quebecois and has been immersed in both cultures since a young age. Travelling to Morocco every summer during his childhood, Amine Benarqia developed a special bond with the country, which sparked his passion for Gnawa music, a style his father loved. The guembri has been his instrument of choice ever since, and he still plays it today. He will be using it to showcase all the facets of Gnawa music on 14 November at Espace Kawalees. He talks about it with Keithy Antoine in this interview for PAN M 360.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FMA 2025 | Amine Benarqia, le maitre du guembri\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZaazhPROYo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n    <div class=\"panm-ads-wrapper alignfull\"><span class=\"panm-ads-copy\">Publicit\u00e9 panam<\/span><div class=\"panm-ads-render\" data-ads-id=\"147367\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is half Moroccan, half Quebecois and has been immersed in both cultures since a young age. Travelling to Morocco every summer during his childhood, Amine Benarqia developed a special bond with the country, which sparked his passion for Gnawa music, a style his father loved. The guembri has been his instrument of choice ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1462,"featured_media":147920,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":""},"categories":[4628],"tags":[],"genre":[4245,8828],"class_list":["post-147949","interviews","type-interviews","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews-en","genre-gnawa-maghrebi-en","genre-orient-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FMA 2025 | Amine Benarqia, the master of the guembri - PAN M 360<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/fma-2025-amine-benarqia-the-master-of-the-guembri\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FMA 2025 | Amine Benarqia, the master of the guembri - PAN M 360\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"He is half Moroccan, half Quebecois and has been immersed in both cultures since a young age. 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