The recent death of French Algerian superstar Rachid Taha brought to mind the musical genre called raï, so I decided to feature it this week by highlighting a few raï artists.… It’s not hard to ...

Since fleeing the fundamentalism of their native country 20 years ago and making Paris their capital in exile, Khaled, Cheb Mami, and other leading practitioners of rai, the youth pop of Algeria, have ...

Rachid Taha, who has died of a heart attack aged 59, shook up the global music scene with his inventive and fiery fusion of Algerian styles and rock, techno and punk. An engagingly bohemian-looking ...

The only time I ever caught Rachid Taha live, at the Lincoln Center Arts Festival in 2002, I told my diary that the French-Algerian singer reminded me of another brazen rock usurper: Pink. An ...

Rachid Taha, who became a rock star in France with assertive lyrics and music that melded his Algerian heritage with punk, funk and electronic beats, has died in Les Lilas, a Paris suburb. He was 59.

The Algerian singer's life was defined by his uncompromising political stand in solidarity with oppressed groups, wherever they may be The death of Algerian singer Rachid Taha last month brought great ...

Algerian singer Rachid Taha died on Wednesday of a heart attack while sleeping at his Paris home at the age of 59. Taha was born on September 18, 1958, in Sik al Wakaa, west of Algeria. He rose to ...

Rachid Taha, a naturalised Frenchman born in Algeria, has been creating African rock sound clashes since the early eighties, taking on board rock, punk, trance, rap and techno music. Rejecting the ...

Rachid Taha, the iconoclastic and rebellious singer from Algeria, died last week in a Paris suburb. He was 59 years old. He had emigrated to France at the age of 10 with his family and emerged in the ...

Although rai is undeniably a product of Algeria, for nearly 20 years Paris has been the principal incubator of this evolving strain of propulsive Arab rebel music. In France there are greater ...

In a tradition of singing best known for its spirit of rebellion and outlawed sexuality, Rachid Taha is rai's crowned bad-boy star. His popularity ranks him up with Algerian kings Khaled, Faudel and ...