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    Raïna Raï – bel-abbes.info". 2011-05-17. "Raïna Raï live in Paris – dzmusique.com". 2011-05-17. Archived from the original on 2011-08-15. "Raïna Raï live...
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    Raï (/raɪ.i/, /raɪ/; Arabic: راي, rāʾy, [raʔi]), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s. Singers of Raï...
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    Cheb Mami (category Raï musicians)
    (1985) Douni l'bladi (1986) Ouach Etsalini (1986) Le Prince du Raï (1989) Let Me Raï (1990) Lazrag Saâni (1991) Nahmek toujours ya taleb (1996) Meli...
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  • music mixes rock, punk and techno with traditional Arabic instruments Raïna Raï, Raï band from Sidi Bel-Abbes Speed Caravan, Franco-Algerian Folktronica...
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  • Faudel, raï musician Khaled, raï musician, also known as Khaled El Hadj Brahim Raïna Raï, band Cheikha Rimitti, rai musician Rachid Taha, raï–rock musician...
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  • Houari Manar Khaled Messaoud Bellemou Najim Rachid Baba Ahmed Rachid Taha Raïna Raï Reda Taliani Ankeny, Jason. "Abdel Ali Slimani – Artist Biography". AllMusic...
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  • Cheb Hasni (category Raï musicians)
    29 September 1994), was an Algerian raï singer. Regarded as "The King of Sentimental Music","le rossignol du raï", his contribution to music made him...
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    Cheb Bilal (category Raï musicians)
    Bilal (Arabic: الشاب بلال. born Bilal Mouffok, موفق بلال) is an Algerian raï singer, who was born on 23 July 1966 in Cherchell, Algeria. He produces traditional...
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  • Houari Manar (category Raï musicians)
    and defended himself from critics, telling Le Monde in 2015, "My raï is a proper raï. Everything I sing I sing in front of families, of children and old...
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    Khaled (musician) (category Raï musicians)
    "Cheb" as a common title for male raï singers). Khaled is one of the most important musicians in the history of Raï music in his native Algeria and is...
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    Cheikha Rimitti (category Raï musicians)
    under the name Cheikha Remettez Reliziana, which included the famous Er-Raï Er-Raï. This was not to be the record that launched her career, however. That...
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  • Cheba Zahouania (category Raï musicians)
    baraka (2002) Zahouania (2001) Samahni ya zine (2000) Rhythm n Raï (1997) Formule Raï (1995) Nights without Sleeping (1988) Rachid System Feat. Rim'K...
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  • Rachid Baba Ahmed (category Raï musicians)
    regional genre known as raï. He was credited with the international popularization of the genre in 1976, through the new pop raï, with a delicate and sophisticated...
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  • Reda Taliani (category Raï musicians)
    الطلياني), is an Algerian raï singer and musician. He is a longtime resident from Aubagne, Provence, France. His music blends chaabi, raï and traditional musical...
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  • Messaoud Bellemou (category Raï musicians)
    influential performers of modern raï music. He is considered by some people to be one of the fathers of Modern Raï Music. Messaoud began his career playing...
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    Faudel (category Raï musicians)
    Algerian raï by his grandmother who performed regularly in Oran with the meddahates, groups of female musicians who play traditional folk raï at weddings...
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    Rachid Taha (category Raï musicians)
    1980s, Algeria's indigenous pop music known as raï began to achieve international attention. Originally raï music was based on "city slickers adapting music...
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    Mohit Raina (born 14 August 1982) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films and television. He started his acting career with a science fiction show...
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    Cheb Sahraoui (category Raï musicians)
    Sahraoui (born Mohamed Sahraoui, Tlemcen, Algeria, 1 April 1961) is an Algerian raï musician, the first to tour North America and the first to incorporate electronic...
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  • Ahmed Fakroun (category Raï musicians)
    Music. John Storm Roberts, of Original Music, AllMusic, wrote that among raï singers, the pop-oriented Ahmed Fakroun stands out on two grounds. First...
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  • Hamid Bouchnak (Arabic: حميد بوشناق; born 13 May 1969) is a Moroccan raï singer. Saida Fikri "Hamid Bouchnak ressuscite les vieux refrains". L'Économiste...
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    Cheb Nasro (category Raï musicians)
    30 November 1969), known as Cheb Nasro and after Nasro (Arabic:نصرو) is raï most prolific artist with more than 131 albums to his credit. Nasro has recorded...
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  • Boutaiba Sghir (category Raï musicians)
    Like a lot of raï artists of his generation, he began his raï singer career at the end of 60s with Melhoun Bedoui music (also called old raï) With Boussouar...
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    Kader Japonais (category Raï musicians)
    his annual performances at the Zénith de Paris for la nuit du Raï and at the festival du Raï in Toulouse as well as for the festival du Monde Arabe in Montreal...
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  • Najim (singer) (category Raï musicians)
    including Raï n'Funk (2006 compilation EMI Music France), on Coupé Décalé Mania, DJ Youcef's Raï A L'ancienne/Raï Nouvelle Génération, on Oran Oujda: Raï express...
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    India, the Padma Bhushan. Raina was born in a Kashmiri Pandit family on 24 January 1921, the son of Rai Bahadur A. N. Raina, sometime Postmaster-General...
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  • Ahmed Zergui (category Raï musicians)
    Tenira, Algeria) was an Algerian raï singer-songwriter. He was a pioneer in introducing the Wah-wah pedal into raï music. In the 70s he founded the group...
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    Cheikha Rabia (category Raï musicians)
    ed. (2008). "Raï". The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 2. Routledge. p. 805. ISBN 978-0-415-97293-2. 'the master of Rai', article in...
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  • Gana El Maghnaoui (category Raï musicians)
    professionally as Gana El Maghnaoui (Arabic: قانا المغناوي), is an Algerian raï songwriter, lyricist and composer. From Maghnia (Tlemcen Province), Mourad...
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  • Cheb Aziz (category Raï musicians)
    dominated by Islamic fundamentalists. Islamist militants had classified the Raï genre of music of consisting subjects relating to sex and drinking. On 20...
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