![]() ![]() 20th century Raï incorporated rock and roll, Jamaican reggae, Egyptian and Moroccan pop. Raï had blossomed in the Algerian port city of Oranor ‘little Paris’ in the 1920s, where female singers called cheikhas, sang about urban life in a blues style. In the 1980s, Khaled started producing and singing songs in the modern form of Algerian desert blues known as Raï, blending North African, Middle Eastern, and Western traditions. Khaled, the internationally famous Algerian singer also known as Cheb Khaled, was playing the accordion, guitar, and harmonica by age 10, and at 14 he founded his first band, the Cinq Étoiles (Five Stars) and recorded his first single, “La Route de lycée” (“The Road to School”).
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