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 ...

Algerian singer Cheikha Rimitti, known as the of “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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

When it comes to popular French music, it's easy to get stuck in the past and cling to the notion that Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier represent the face of Paris and Marseille. Visit clubs in those ...

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Cheikha Rimitti, singer: born Tessala, Algeria 8 May 1923; (two sons, one daughter); died Paris 15 May 2006. Cheikha Rimitti was one of the most important figures in Algerian rai music, and considered ...

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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 ...