Raï

Music genre originating in Algeria

Raï (; Arabic: راي, rāy, [ra:j]), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian popular music whose origins date back to the 1920s. Younger singers of Raï are called cheb (شاب) or cheba (شابة), i.e. 'young', as opposed to sheikh (شيخ, 'shaykh'), i.e.

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