Khaled Hadj Brahim was born in 1960 in the Algerian port city of Oran. Oran is also the birthplace of rai, the musical Khaled from the eighties successfully exported to the rest of the world. Domestically Khaled was controversial because of his outspoken lyrics. The mustachioed singer was especially popular with the large Algerian community in Europe. In 1986 he therefore moved to Paris. In 1992 he
… bought his nickname Cheb (Arabic for 'young') off. Not much later, he scored a big hit with Didi and he became the most famous ambassador of the rai. His nickname "king of rai" was again confirmed in 1996 when he again scored an international hit with Aicha.more