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10.0 1 Seasons • 6 Episodes

Raï Is Not Dead - Season 1

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.

Top Cast

  • Hadj Sameer

    Hadj Sameer

    Self (Host)

  • Cheb Khaled

    Cheb Khaled

    Self

  • Cheb Hasni

    Cheb Hasni

    Self (archive footage)

  • Rachid Baba Ahmed

    Rachid Baba Ahmed

    Self (archive footage)

  • Cheikha Remitti

    Cheikha Remitti

    Self (archive footage)

  • Boutaïba Seghir

    Boutaïba Seghir

    Self

  • Cheb Mami

    Cheb Mami

    Self (archive footage)

  • Lotfi Attar

    Lotfi Attar

    Self

  • Chaba Fadela

    Chaba Fadela

    Self

Overview

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.

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