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Ahmed Rebai

Tunisian singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ102850525
Source-derived summary

Ahmed Rebai (Arabic: أحمد الرباعي), by his full name Ahmed Ben Wajdi Rebai (أحمد بن وجدي الرباعي), born on October 27, 1997, in Tunis, is a Tunisian singer.

Coming from a family of musicians from Sfax, he is the nephew of singer Saber Rebaï.

Biography

Childhood and training

Ahmed Rebai, born in 1997 in Tunis into a family of musicians, with his father Wajdi, a professional musician, and his uncle Saber, a renowned singer. His father realizes that his son has talent and that he must be supported in his first steps and especially help him develop his career. Very early on, he encouraged him to learn music and play the violin in specialized schools, such as the National Conservatory of Music in Tunis. Ahmed Rebai started singing at the age of eleven.

After obtaining his baccalaureate, he followed university studies at the Higher Institute of Music of Tunis, where he obtained a fundamental license in music and musicology in 2019. In 2020, it follows studies master.

Career

His sources of inspiration are his uncle Saber Rebaï, but also Abdel Halim Hafez, Ali Riahi and Dhikra Mohamed.

In December 2016, at the age of 19, he released his first song, Abati ( أبتي or My father ), written by Bachir Lakkani and composed by Najib Meslmani.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ahmed Rebai” is tunisian singer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ahmed, Rebai and Tunisian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2019, 2020, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-10-27. For this dossier, Ahmed, Rebai and Tunisian is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q102850525. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997, 2019, 2020 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Ahmed Rebai” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.