I heard this piece on Cheb Khaled on
All things Considered on my way home from work today. Gotta buy that CD! I just love him.
Khaled: Out Of Exile, Finding 'Liberte'by Banning Eyre
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112211110
August 25, 2009 - Khaled is Algeria's best-known singer, as well as a pioneer of the music known as rai, which means "opinion." Khaled's upbeat opinions of partying, pleasure and romance rankled religious conservatives in 1980s Algeria. That's why he spent most of the past 20 years in exile in Europe. In his first new recording in five years, Khaled looks back on his history as a merry rabble-rouser on Liberte. [more]
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Rai rules in my household! I have almost all his work, except this one. He is one of very few who sound just as good, live.
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