[2] He recorded two successful singles, "Cha dani bent nass" and "Kima ndirlek ma terdhach" with the Edition Saint Crépain label.
In 2014, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, he was photographed kissing another man at a music venue in Algiers where he was performing, angering religious fundamentalists.
Manar's career continued to suffer from the backlash against his flamboyant persona and thinly veiled homosexuality.
[4] In 2017, he was due to perform at an event organised by the National Office of Culture and Information to mark the sixty-third anniversary of the beginning of the Algerian War of Independence.
"[7] On 7 January 2019, Manar died of a heart attack at a private clinic in Hydra while undergoing liposuction.