Cheb Mami Nowadays

Cheb Mami is the pioneer of a new "raï attitude" whose objective is to make universalise raï by opening it up to Western influences whilst at the same time carefully preserving its traditional character. Today, Cheb is principally acclaimed for a golden high-pitched voice which ascends the scales with voluptuous grace. The "mini-singer" has not only introduced an original raï style but plays to full houses in front of young audiences more and more divorced form Algerian culture.

Cheb Mami in Brief

Cheb Mami ("the kid" in Oran dialect) belongs to that post-independence generation of Algerians full of faith in the construction of a free and modern society, and whose youth was sacrificed precisely because the contradictions between the country’s archaic shackles and progressive ideals were so difficult to live.