Cest La Vie is Khaleds first album after a five year break from recording during presidential elections in France and the Arab spring. Khaled tried to convey what Algerian and Moroccan immigrants suffer in Europe through the album, and thinks that this is the reason behind the albums huge commercial success. The album contains a message of tolerance, love and peace, staying away from the themes of conflict that many other artists in the Arab world explore. The latter track, which saw heavy rotation on MTV Europe and climbed to fourth on the charts in Germany, The Legendary King of Rai, Cheb Khaled is a winner of many prestigious awards, and has sold over 46 million albums worldwide including 10 diamond, platinum, and gold albums,in 2010 he performed Didi at the opening ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.Ĭhab Khaleds new album Cest La Vie has sold a million copies in the European market after only two months. Khaled and Don Was appeared on the The Tonight Show on February 4, 1993. The song was also used in a Bollywood film titled Shreeman Aashiq. His most famous songs are "Didi", "Aïcha" and "C'est la vie".Ĭheb Khaled's signature song, "Didi", became extremely popular in the Arabic-speaking countries and also in several other continents, including Europe, where it entered top charts in France, Belgium and Spain, and in Asia, including India and Pakistan.
His popularity has earned him the unofficial title "King of Raï".
He began recording in his early teens under the name Cheb Khaled (Arabic for "Young Man" Khaled, as opposed to the traditionalist Sheikh elders) and has become the most internationally famous Algerian singer in the Arab world and across many continents. Khaled Hadj Ibrahim (Arabic:, born 29 February 1960), better known as Khaled, is a raï singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in Oran in the square of Eckmühl in Algeria.
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