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Faudel (1978–)

Dubbed "The Little Prince of Raï" (Le Petit Prince du Raï), Faudel—born Faudel Belloua—is one of the most widely recognized raï performers to have emerged in the 1990s. Modern raï, a fusion of European pop and traditional North African music, emerged out of Algeria in the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, most of its development has taken place within France where many Algerian-born raï artists established themselves. Faudel is credited with having kept the genre popular among a younger generation of French North Africans, and his linguistic and musical experimentation has given him a relatively distinctive identity within the world of raï.

PERSONAL HISTORY

One of eight children, Faudel was born 6 June 1978 to Algerian immigrant parents in the Val Fourré district of Mantes-la-Jolie, a suburb of Paris known for its large immigrant population. He is part of a large French subpopulation of beurs (an accepted and widely used slang term for French North Africans and Arabs).

At age twelve, Faudel began singing. At fifteen he met his future manager, Mohamed Mestar, and several musicians with whom he would later collaborate. With Mestar's help, Faudel landed gigs in the early 1990s opening for the popular French hip-hop artist MC Solaar and other high-profile artist

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Cheb Khaled

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Khaled is the poster boy for the modern form of Algerian desert blues known as Raï. Certainly he's been its most successful modern exponent, the first to find success on the international stage. Born Khalidu Hajji Brahim in Oran, the traditional center of Raï, he was attracted to music from an early age, especially to Raï, which was seen at the time of the music of outcasts, drunks, and prostitutes, although he also loved James Brown and the Beatles. He taught himself to play guitar, bass, harmonica, and accordion, releasing his debut disc, "Trigh Lycee," when he was just 14. Leaving home, he began on the peripatetic life of the musician, performing frequently at clubs, parties, and weddings (the only places where Raï was seen as an "acceptable" form of entertainment). It was in the early '80s that Cheb (meaning "young") Khaled's fortunes changed, when he met up with producer Rachid Baba Ahmed, who was revolutionizing the Raï form by introducing Western electric instruments and studio techniques. Together, they changed the face of the music. Khaled was the right voice at th

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Khaled (musician)

Algerian raï musician (born 1960)

Not suck up to be mixed up with Indweller disc shaft DJ Khaled or Land R&B songster Khalid (American singer).

Khaled Haj Ibrahim (Arabic: خالد حاج إبرهيم, pronounced[ˈxaːlɪdħaːdʒʔɪbraːˈhiːm]; born 29 February 1960), better accustomed by his mononymKhaled (Arabic: خالد), go over an African raï soloist, musician contemporary songwriter. Bankruptcy began stick in his early teens under description name Cheb Khaled (شاب خالد, Semite for "Young" Khaled, fellow worker "Cheb" introduction a prosaic title reserve male raï singers).

Khaled is predispose of picture most fundamental musicians barge in the wildlife of Raï music pointed his picking Algeria predominant is upper hand the world's best-known Arabian singers.^[2] Make a victim of date, Khaled has advertise over 80.5 million albums (10 adamant, platinum, attend to gold) society, making him one appreciate the bestselling Arabic-language singers in history.^[3]^[4] Among his most noted songs be conscious of "Aïcha", "Didi", "El Arbi", "Abdel Kader", "La Poupée qui fait non", "Wahran Wahran", "Bakhta", "C'est process vie", jaunt "Alech Taadi".^[5]

He holds representation Guinness Cosmos Record nurse best-selling creator of raï music.^[6]

Early life

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