Rkia Damsiria (Arabic: رقية الدمسيرية; born January 1, 1948) is a Moroccan Berber singer and poet.

She writes and performs in Tashelhit, her native Berber tongue.

[1][2][3] Rkia Chewal or Damsiria was born in 1948 in Demsira, a region/tribe near Imintanoute, Morocco.

She had a difficult childhood because she lost her mother at the age of 4, was maltreated by her father's wife and forced to marry.

[1] While in Casablanca, she started singing and her beginning was in the middle of 1960s with some of the most popular Amazigh rwaiss artists at that time such as Mohamed Demsiri and Said Achtouk.