Today' s FREE song is by Khaled:
The terms cheb and chebba--young man and young woman--put an informal spin on the older, more dignified musical honorific cheikh and cheikha. The change of titles reflects the evolution of traditional wahrani in the seaside, partying city of Oran, into Algeria's most popular contemporary music, rai. Khaled, born in Oran, and raised on wahrani, would become a singing star at a young age and rise fast. Though he has made his home in France since the mid-1980s, he remains the undisputed King of Rai, even if he dropped the cheb from his name years ago.
Algeria's bold, 1970's rai singers dispensed with decorum and sang songs that proved shockingly outspoken for Algerians, but the lyrics changed over time, in tact with political and historical changes in the country. For many years Khaled was on stage spreading his lyrics, and after his knock-out performance at Algeria's first rai festival in 1985, Khaled moved to France, where he recorded 'Kutche' with keyboardist Safi Boutella and Paris producer Martin Messonier. Today his style is more worldly inspired, however, the roots in te music remain the same.
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Posted by: naim | August 15, 2008 at 05:18 AM