# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cheb-i-sabbah
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:30:35.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cheb-i-sabbah"
name: "Cheb i Sabbah"
slug: "cheb-i-sabbah"
description: "Serge El Beze, best known as Cheb i Sabbah was a DJ and composer/producer known for combining Asian, Arabian, and African sounds into his compositions. El Beze was of Jewish and Berber descent. He was born in Algeria and came from a family of musicians. When he was a teenager, El Beze moved to Paris and, in 1964, began his career DJing American soul music records. In 1984, he settled as a DJ in San Francisco. In 1989 he began using the stage name \"Cheb i Sabbah\", which translates to \"young of the morning\". He has seven recordings on the Six Degrees Records label."
tagline: "Algerian DJ and composer/producer (1947–2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-08-07"
deathDate: "2013-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.18
  momentum:             9.574468085106385
  historical:           6.817784
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3090841/"
    handle:    "nm3090841"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://chebisabbah.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/586"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AD"
    title: "شاب الصباح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AD"
    title: "شاب الصباح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheb_i_Sabbah"
    title: "Cheb i Sabbah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheb_i_Sabbah"
    title: "Cheb i Sabbah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheb_i_Sabbah"
    title: "Cheb i Sabbah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheb_i_Sabbah"
    title: "Cheb i Sabbah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d4570f76-d803-429d-80ec-1b966c2c45ed"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q975557"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump