Raï Hi-Story Photo Raimusik known throughout the world. Flashback to the mid 80s. "Le petit overlapping" was the bar in the Rue de Lappe. (Today it is nothing left, the building was demolished, again where a brand new house with modern apartments.) I came in 1987 happened to be in the pub, because I lived in the Bastille district. The host name was Ali, he had einfranzösischt his name, and called on all but name Alain. And here I discovered a whole new music for me. Rai was that told me that people willingly and proudly, for it was their music. The clientele was mostly North Africans, but also often mingled French and even tourists among them. The mood was phenomenal. The whiskey flowed, it was sung, danced and laughed, and after closing time was in the smaller circles continues to celebrate, dancing on the tables. Without realizing it, I had landed in the heart of the Paris scene Rai: Cheb all wrong here because the French chapter. Cheb mention the Rai singer. That is young, the Rai singer described themselves as defiant, cheeky "young", because until then the music was always sung by old "Cheikh. Rai is translated opinion, view, and Rai music was regarded as a rebellious youth, as the "blues of young Algerians - in exchange traditions and constraints against authority and gender segregation in the Islamic society.
Khaled Photo: © Michel Lionnet
One day a guy with a big smile and an earring in his left ear with Ali at the bar. "Are not you ...?" I ask. He was, Khaled himself. The very first article about him appeared in French scene-magazines. "I often come here because I feel comfortable. Alain is a friend of mine, a brother, I know him from Oran, from my childhood. It belongs to the family. The rue de Lappe, I know for one, one and a half years Thanks to Alain. I will always find friends. "
Said the sunshine boy, and the eager journalist asked him for an interview. "No problem", he immediately wrote to me on a phone number. That was when his cousin Kada, also a rai-man. Kada played until recently, the synthesizer in Khaled's band. It took the end of a very beautiful tenacity to get the interview. Zig calls. Not that Khaled was playing the star. He was already a star. You could not go with him on the street without that North African youths gathered around him, "Are not you ...? - "No, I am his brother, Khaled used to always say. Once we were in the Rue de Lappe from Ali's pub on the street, a young assessment speaks to Khaled, asks for an autograph. Khaled sees a car radio in his pocket, it looks closer and says: This is MY car radio. Regretfully, the boy said: Sorry, Khaled, had I known that this was your car ... return it to him, and can be photographed in peace with Khaled.
Anyway, after numerous back-and-Hertelefonieren he emerged one day from my office: in the red sports car, loudly Cheb Khaled came from the speakers. The whole area looked at what's going on.
Back in 1988, Khaled shone in interviews often accused by a friendly smile and meaningless words, which it some. He said that with its Shyness. When I asked him, he said:
"You me schüchterst That's it ... I can not explain Sometimes I move on stage, and sometimes I stay like a robot on stage Sometimes I.. I relaxed, I'm talking, I move ... but I'm too closed. Sometimes there are so many people moving and screaming that. But I can not move me from the spot, I have stage fright. "
once hid Khaled at a concert in the suburb of Nanterre under the stairs that led to the stage, so he had stage fright. The organizers were looking for him everywhere, but did not find him. But when he starts singing, the stage fright forgotten.
Khaled Photo: © Michel Lionnet
Khaled came in 1986 from Algeria. He lived mostly in Marseille, because it reminded of his home city of Oran. Sang in cabarets and on-site warehouses. At the round table in my office, he then told quite a bit of himself.
"With seven years I played harmonica, flute, guitar, I heard many singers, including those from Egypt and the Gulf, when they came on the radio or on TV I had a gift: every song that came, I sang along, and I learned very quickly, without writing down or reading then I started a band that played Moroccan music. with a banjo and an Arab bass, Goumbri, and tumba and the bendir. I liked their music. I sang the high voice of women and the depth of the men.
When I played at weddings or in Cabaret was allowed, I really do not as a minor in the Cabaret, but I secretly went in, as a singer. We played Moroccan music. Sometimes there was a pause, then I took the accordion, I had a small accordion, and I sang Rai music. A guy came, he said, you have a great voice, we will try to make a record. I agreed, that was the end of 1974, I made my first two singles. Because the success came, I went in that direction. We dissolved the band in 1974, we separated and I started with the Rai. "
time Khaled was still called Cheb Khaled. The Algerian authorities were at first not at all excited about the new fashion, which spread rapidly around.
" That was a question the erotic. With us there are people, hard Muslims if the Rai on television, they send away their children or make the TV off. There are children, there are young people who make the music when her father enters the room.
I am the only singer in my family. Sometimes I take the car of my father, but he takes me off the tape. I can not let them in your car. Out of respect, out of respect for him I can not. The life of a Muslim is very hard. But is it hypocritical, you know, out of respect you must not tell me some words I can not tell you certain words. You drink alcohol, for example, I drink alcohol, but if we find ourselves in the family, I do not drink. I'm here, so do you. One of us must go out to drink so the other can. That's life with us. "
Khaled:" At that time the Rai erotic texts, was sung by women, by alcohol. In a Muslim country that was something hard. At weddings they sang what they wanted, but that did not come on TV or the radio. But that was the music of our generation ... I sing of alcohol, of love, as in Algeria, 75 percent of the population young, and all liked this Music. They wrote to the TV and asked why would not Rai. Ultimately, they were overtaxed, they thought that Rai is still as before, erotic and that he told of naked women, which earlier was indeed the case. I explained to journalists that no longer the case, and since 1984 it also comes on TV and radio.
There Rai songs that are poetic. A song can be from the beginning to the end of poetry. But this is rare. In the other songs it goes ... I say a bit of text here, where we are. Rai, I'm here, I think I have my glass in front of me, my girlfriend left me, I called her, she did not respond, and I sing of the everyday life. "
late 90s Khaled produced The only American in Paris .... For the first concert at the Olympia in 1990 was even the then Prime Minister Michel Rocard. Since" Didi "In 1992, Rai music came from suburban warehouses . with bad sound in the largest concert halls in the world
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