Khaled (musician)

Cheb Khaled (Arabic الشاب خالد ash- Schabb Khalid, DMG aš - SABB halide ) or nowadays simply Khaled (* February 29, 1960 in Oran, Algeria Hadj Brahim Khaled as, Arabic خالد حاج إبراهيم / Halid Ḥāǧǧ Ibrāhīm ) is the internationally most famous representatives of the Algerian people and popular music Raï. Cheb is not a first name, but means " young man ".

Life

The Roi du Raï ( King of Raï ) made his first recordings at the age of 14 years ( " Trigh Lycée " ) and had been previously released as 28- year-old over 100 cassettes. Khaled was the late 1970s and early 1980s, known as part of the " Pop - Raï movement ", with which the found raï Following the international pop and rock music world and their most outstanding exponent he was next to Cheb Mami and Chaba Fadela. Built in 1983 as the first piece in the Algerian Rai Radio played El Mersem (The Memory ) was an Khaled piece.

Due to its exposed position and the rise of Islamist forces in the country had to leave Algeria Khaled 1986 and went to France. In 1989 he was at West Berlin Festival Horizonte Festival of World Cultures (No. 4, 1989), his first major appearance in Germany. In 1992 he published in France his first fully produced by Western standards, recorded in Los Angeles and Brussels album Khaled and Cheb was also the fall in his name. The title contained on this disk Didi is still his best-selling single that made it even in Israel for a top spot in the charts. 2007 Didi was covered by the German pop duo Milk & Honey.

In the Maghreb, and in France a superstar, Khaled is also in the rest of the Francophone and the Arab world for years regularly in the charts, but he is known and successful in the English-speaking music world. Also in Germany, he has a cult following, as evidenced by his sold-out concerts, for example, in the Altona factory in the years 2000 and 2004.

2001 had to defend himself against accusations of collaboration, and a call for a boycott of conservative voices after he guested together with the Israeli singer Noa in Rome and were also representatives of the Israeli government on the concert attendance Khaled. In September of the same year his U.S. tour, which was planned to include a partnership with Hakim, was canceled in the United States due to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.

His piece Aïcha was 39 weeks long in Switzerland in the charts and was in the year 2003 as a cover version of the Danish group Outlandish an international success.

In his role as ambassador for the UN organization FAO Khaled led in October 2009 initiated the World Cup qualifier between France and Austria.