Cheb Mami
Algerian raï musician and singer-songwriter · Algeria · On the map · Musicians · Born 1966 · age 60
Mohamed Khelifati, better known by his stage name Cheb Mami, is an Algerian raï musician and singer-songwriter. He sings and speaks in Algerian Arabic and sometimes in Eastern Arabic dialects or in French. Internationally, he is known for contributing vocals to the 1999 Sting single "Desert Rose".
Cheb Mami is read about 353 times a day, in 27 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 111 days, one point a day.
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, Honestly, the fact I've got where I am today is the result of a lot of hard graft.
It's like a dream come true, a little Algerian singer coming to the United States.
It's my dream to make it so rai music becomes a style of music like jazz, like rock.
