Cheb Mami

Cheb Mami, ( Mohamed Khelifati with the civil statue), is a Algerian Chanteur of music Raï, born on July 11th, 1966 with Graba-el-Wadi in the wilaya of Saïda in Algérie. Cheb Mami as well sings in French as in Arab Langue of the the Maghreb.

Biography

It is pointed out by its flexible and acute voice at the time of a contest in 1982, where it interprets traditional, El Marsam .

Between 1982 to 1985, Cheb Mami recorded approximately 10 cassettes, produced between 100.000 to 500.000 copies. It arrives at Paris in 1985 and takes part in 1986 in the festival of Raï in Bobigny, at the sides of Khaled or Fadela and Sahraoui.

It records with Los Angeles its album of 1991, Let Me Spoke , but this last suffers from the war of the Gulf. It is only in 1994 that it reaches a broad success with Saïda , whose title is a homage to its birthplace.

Cheb Mami played in the film 100% Arabica of Mahmoud Zemmouri (1997). he played the part of the pupil of Karim Bouderba. He receives the Prix Mirror French-speaking space in 1997. He takes part in 2002 in the concert of Solidays.

He is popular in the world thanks to his many Duo S with large popstars in his album Of the South in North . One finds there in particular duets with Sting for " Rose" serves; (1999), Zucchero for " Cosi Celeste" , Raman Susheela, Crow, and Diam' S for " Not it will be non". It also takes part in a duet very symbolic system with the singer kabyle Idir in Azwaw .

In 2003, it was made knight of the National order of the merit on a proposal from the president Jacques Chirac, who wished to reward " the talent of a very large artist who made discover the Raï in the world entier".

Business Cheb Mami

In November 2005, a complaint is deposited against Cheb Mami by a French photographer of specialized press in the spoke, ex-partner of the singer whom it met during an interview in 2004. Enclosure of the singer, it refuses the Avortement that he asks him on several occasions. End August 2005, at the instigation of Michel Levy, business manager of Cheb Mami, it is invited in Algérie. In fact it would have been taken of load by the artistic director local and led in a bungalow where he to him is offered a cooling which proves to contain drug.

Always according to it, when it takes again conscience it is in a property of Cheb Mami, where lengthened of force, it will be struck with belly one harms whole by three women who try this barbarian way to start a forced abortion. Two doctors would have tried to proceed to a forced curetting. With the morning, ensanglantée and pantelante, it is slackened, put in a taxi and is returned to Paris. Shocked and wounded, of return in France, the doctors note that the fetus is always viable. Learning the failure from the forced abortion, Cheb Mami would then have proposed an important amount of money to him so that it conceals the martyrdom which it underwent and proposes to him to be made fall through with its expenses. She refuses and in March 2006, she is confined of a little girl.

Having a recording in which the singer howls: You do not have any more a baby: blood, I saw it. It was like a piece of liver , the judicial police stops it on October 25th, 2006 with the descent of a flight coming from Oran and he is imprisoned for deliberate violence, sequestration and threat for 3 months and half with district VIP of Health in Paris before being given in bail in exchange of a guarantee of 200.000 euros and confiscation of his passport. It avoids justice while fleeing then towards the Algérie by using out-of-date papers. It is at present the object of a mandate of international stop and sought by Interpol, however, Francoise Cotta, the lawyer of the victim, estimates that there is little chance so that justice puts the hand on the defendant, Cheb Mami one “would be protected” from the president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and no agreement of extradition exists between France and Algeria.

In an interview with the Daily of Oran , Cheb Mami known as to have been victim of a blackmail and eagerness of the French media because it would be a Arab star . By giving its version, he recognizes the facts and indicates the largest error of my life, it is to have taken the bad advice of my Jewish manager . For him, he does not flee justice but wishes to be judged in Algérie because he estimates more not to rely on French justice.

In answer to an interview with the daily newspaper El Watan of Cheb Mami, main Mohamed Laribi, lawyer of Michel Levy, manager of Cheb Mami, denounces the strategy of the plot anti-Arabic and asks cheb Mami to assume its acts.

Selective discography

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