Mimoun El Oujdi

Mimoun El Oujdi was a Moroccan singer of the Raï genre of music. Like other Maghrebi raï singers, he is habitually given the title "Cheb" (الشاب), meaning "young", and is usually known as Cheb Mimoun El Oujdi. He was born Mimoun Bakoush in Oujda in 1953, fifteen kilometres from the Algerian border. Mimoun El Oujdi released 18 albums between 1982 and 2012, including Barmān (1985), Alamāne (1995) and Soulouh (2008). He died in November 2018.