Ro Cham Tih, a master of Gia Rai music, shares the sound of the highlands through hand-crafted bamboo instruments on global ...

PARIS - When Cheb Mami started singing as a boy in Algeria, rai music was banned from the radio because of its irreverent lyrics about desire, politics and the problems of everyday life. So Mami sang ...

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 ...