Algerian singer Cheikha Rimitti, known as the “mother of rai,” the Algerian music of dissent, died of a heart attack May 15 in Paris. She was 83. Rimitti, who was still performing concerts in Europe, ...

Cheikha Rimitti helped put raï music on the map–a cool, groovy style that originated in the Algerian port city of Oran in the 1920s, a mix of Bedouin folk music, French, Spanish, African and Arabic ...

Raï Story is a musical journey in search of the Raï legend, Cheikha Remitti, in Oran, Algeria, where the Raï musical tradition began. In 1923, the first Raï singers performed behind screens during ...

Cheikha Rimitti, a pioneer of the rebellious Algerian pop called rai, died May 15 in Paris, where she had lived since 1978. She was 83. Cheikha Rimitti was considered the queen of rai (RYE or rah-AY), ...

In the 1930s no respectable Algerian woman dared to make music about sexual pleasure, alcohol consumption, poverty, oppression. Cheikha Rimitti sang anyway. The artist, whose pioneering recordings ...

There are five new CDs released this week that tell the story of the early days of rai, the north African style that first swept from Algeria across France and then the rest of Europe back in the ...

Cheikha Rimitti, who has died suddenly in Paris at the age of 83, was one of the true legends of the Algerian Rai music scene, and one of the greatest female singers of the Islamic world. She had just ...

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