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Raï Is Not Dead

Documentary
2023
1 Season
6 Episodes
FR
Ended

About

What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the end of the Second World War, the raï wave spread from the cabarets of western Algeria to the cassette shops of Barbès in Paris, before sweeping the world at the end of the 1980s. its hybridization, the intoxicating music traveled from Algerian and French weddings to the biggest international stages, before suddenly disappearing from the radar at the dawn of the new millennium. Icons that have disappeared, including Cheikha Remitti and Prince Hasni, to young heirs, passing by the star Khaled, the collector Hadj Sameer trace the tumultuous course of this musical genre, between clandestinity, planetary glory and resistance.

#algeria#north africa#music documentary#maghreb#djazair#raï music#arab music

Cast

Hadj Sameer

Hadj Sameer

as Self (Host)

Cheb Khaled

Cheb Khaled

as Self

Cheb Hasni

Cheb Hasni

as Self (archive footage)

Rachid Baba Ahmed

Rachid Baba Ahmed

as Self (archive footage)

Cheikha Remitti

Cheikha Remitti

as Self (archive footage)

Boutaïba Seghir

Boutaïba Seghir

as Self

Cheb Mami

Cheb Mami

as Self (archive footage)

Lotfi Attar

Lotfi Attar

as Self

Chaba Fadela

Chaba Fadela

as Self

Messaoud Bellemou

Messaoud Bellemou

as Self

Cheb Sahraoui

Cheb Sahraoui

as Self

Rachid Taha

Rachid Taha

as Self (archive footage)

Cheb Bello

Cheb Bello

as Self

Faudel

Faudel

as Self (archive footage)

Safy Boutella

Safy Boutella

as Self

CH

Cheb Hamid

as Self

ML

Mohamed Lamouri

as Self

BB

Belkacem Bouteldja

as Self

MB

Mokhtar Bachiri

as Self

SS

Sofiane Saïdi

as Self

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