Abdel Ali Slimani
Algerian singer
Abdel Ali Slimani (Arabic عبد العلي سليماني, Algiers) is an Algerian raï singer.
Life
Jazz Times described his 1996 album Mraya "an impressive debut"[1] being noted by others for his song Moi et Toi.[2] Slimani's rai steers clear of suggestive content and bad language and is as Slimani says "family music" heard on the radio in Algeria even in the 1990s.[3]
References
- ^ Jazz Times 1996 "... cogent core identity in the music of Rai musician Abdel Ali Slimani, whose Mraya (Real World) is an impressive debut , and another point chalked up for the gospel of Rai, still relatively unknown in the west."
- ^ Reginald Byron, Ullrich Kockel Negotiating Culture: Moving, Mixing and Memory in Contemporary Europe 2006 Page 108 "In the musical world, men such as the Algerian singer Abdel ali Slimani stand out: in Moi et Toi he tells of a man who falls in love with a woman outside his group and is therefore rejected by both his family and friends"
- ^ Option: Volumes 72-76 Sonic Options Network - 1997 "Abdel Ali Slimani - BACK HOME IN ALGERIA, singing rai can get you killed. It's the music of rebellion, with decadent lyrics about smoking, drinking, love and sex — all of it pretty tame by Western standards, but fundamentally subversive ...says Slimani, 34, in tentative English. "My music is very, very clean. I never swear. I do family music. You can hear it now on the radio in Algeria. Everyone can listen." Growing up in a middle-class family ...
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Raï musicians
- Abdel Ali Slimani
- Ahmed Fakroun
- Ahmed Zergui
- Boussouar El Maghnaoui
- Boutaiba Sghir
- Bouteldja Belkacem
- Chaba Fadela
- Cheb Bilal
- Cheb Hasni
- Cheb Kader
- Cheb Mami
- Cheb Nasro
- Cheb Sahraoui
- Cheb Tarik
- Cheba Zahouania
- Cheikha Rabia
- Cheikha Rimitti
- Fadela & Sahrawi
- Faudel
- Gana El Maghnaoui
- Houari Manar
- Kader Japonais
- Khaled
- Messaoud Bellemou
- Mimoun El Oujdi
- Najim
- Rachid Baba Ahmed
- Rachid Taha
- Raïna Raï
- Reda Taliani