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 s’est éteinte il y a tout juste 20 ans, le 15 mai 2006. Deux décennies plus tard, l’aura de cette « doyenne du raï » continue de planer dans nos cœurs et sur la musique. Qu’y a-t-il de ...

Il y a 20 ans, le 15 mai 2006 s'éteignait à Paris la reine du raï, Cheikha Rimitti. Elle avait 83 ans. Au cours de sa carrière débutée dans les cafés et les bars d'Algérie, elle a composé deux cent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cheikha Rimitti, une légende, un nom, un son qui en impose. La doyenne, baptisée ainsi parce que dans les cabarets de l’Après-guerre il fallait lui remettre un verre. Soixante ans plus tard, la mamie ...

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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