The traditional music of Algeria is combined with Spanish, Moroccan, French, and Arabic influences to create the dance-inspiring sounds of "the Prince of Rai," Cheb Mami (born Khelifati Mohamed). Cheb Mami's euphony was described in a beseech exit from the ARK 21 record label, as "Arabic language harlan Stone & roll retaining virtues of traditional music only infused with urban urgency." Reviewing his 1999 record album, Meli Meli, CMJ New Music Report wrote, "As perhaps rai's close pop vocalizer, Cheb Mami is one of the leaders of the carry, turning the genre into a futuristic dance/funk crossbreed with the exponent to pile the dancefloors of North Africa, Paris, and New York."
A native of Saida, a small village in southwest Algeria, Cheb Mami has been attracting attending with his soulful singing since his early teens. In 1971, he situated sec in a talent contest organized by Ihan Wa Chabab.
Despite recording several successful cassettes in the eighties, he made small money from their sale. Frustrated by the euphony industriousness in his homeland, he shortly began to debate alternatives. Although he served a stint in the Algerian military, he resettled to Paris, France, undermentioned his discharge in 1975. With the release of his start Prince of Rai, in 1989, Cheb Mami reached the upper echelon of rai medicine. Cheb Mami has continued to hire the rai tradition to new high. Meli Meli featured a song, "Parisian du Nord," performed with rap isaac M. Singer K-Mel of Alliance Ethnique and a remix of the statute title cart track, which featured help from Gordon Cyrus (Neneh Cherry, Massive Attack) and Soul II Soul's Simon Law.
The new millennium was a very much more pivotal prison term for Mami, for his collaboration with Sting on his mainstream hit, "Desert Rose," marked the first duet with a Western singer and an Eastern artist. Mami's rai background was full-fledged at lowest, allowing him to release Dellali (2001) without much music-industry political restraint.
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Tracks: 11
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