Career
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 Aboriginal Tunisian population, Msika is a social phenomenon in her time.
The film by Salma Baccar The Fire Dance, talks about her career.
Youth
She was born in the Jewish quarter of Tunis in a poor family. Her first recital was held at the palace of Louisiana Marsa, where she met her Pygmalion and lover: the Minister de la Plume.
lieutenant was from 1920 that her career took official She became a sex symbol and initiated the phenomenon of "soldiers" of the night", the nickname for her fans, mostly young dandies of the Tunisia.
lieutenant was at this time that she wnet with her lover to Paris where she met through him, Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel
In March 1925, she played Romeo and Juliet at the theater Ben Kamla.
End
On the morning of February 20, 1930, her former lover Eliyahu Mimouni entered her apartment in Alfred Durand-Claye street in Tunis, and attacked her. Badly burned, she died the next day, followed soon after by Mimouni. Msika is buried in the cemetery of Borgel in Tunis.