The damage to structures and infrastructure, estimated at $10–15 billion. On 4 August, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of the city of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, exploded, causing the death of at least 190, 6,500 injuries, and about 300,000 people homeless. He released in tribute to Lebanon and its citizens following the horrific explosion that destroyed the port of Beirut. Cheb Khaled with SoolkingĬheb Khaled's latest artistic work is music video, " Elle S'appelle Beyrouth" featuring Rodge, which means in English "her name is Beirut". Sources told to "et bil arabi" that the album will include duets with a group of international artists such as DJ Snake, The Weeknd, and Soolking. He just keeps smiling and singing - damn the consequences.Algerian musician, Cheb Khaled is working on a new album, which will feature 12 songs. But in the combative milieu of North Africa and the Middle East, those too can be fighting words. Khaled fiercely adheres to his message of peace, love and personal freedom. Khaled has never really shaken his mischievous image: He's been to court on more than one occasion for domestic disputes, and he's railed publicly against Muslim fundamentalists who he says have "the mentality of the Stone Age." His collaborations with Jewish and American artists have irked even moderate Muslims. In 1992, "Didi," from his self-titled album, led Khaled to international fame and recognition he sang it in South Africa at the opening concert for the 2010 World Cup. But when Khaled took the stage and unleashed his defiant, guttural cry, fear gave way to exuberance and joy. The audience was mostly second-generation North African immigrants, many of whom were wary of potential troublemakers in their midst. For a man with such a big voice - robust and burly, reedy and refined - he seemed surprisingly small. It was outside Paris where I first heard him sing at a gig in 1992. In 1989, it became dangerous for Khaled to stay in Algeria, where artists and intellectuals were being killed by fundamentalists. Later, after performing a concert for 20,000 people in Algiers in 1985, his became the voice of a generation for many. His voice still made its way into homes and hearts all over the country, thanks to cassette tapes. It didn't sit so well with the growing number of Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria, though, and his songs were consequently banned from state radio.
Khaled's directness and his force-of-nature voice, which blurs the lines between anguish and ecstasy, made him the darling of Oran's cabarets and wedding parties. "When I sing rai," Khaled said, "I talk about things directly: I drink alcohol, I love a woman, I am suffering. Khaled says he prefers to take a different approach. When a traditional Oranese poet wants to describe love, Khaled once explained to me, the poet will speak in metaphor - for example, about a pigeon. Khaled was also a bad boy, a playboy and a partier, even rejecting the polite traditions of Algeria's poetry. In a land torn apart by intolerance and violence, Khaled stood out as an artist who embraced openness and peace. Khaled came of age during the lull between two bloody conflicts: the 1950s war that freed Algeria from French colonialism and the religiously fueled civil war of the 1990s. Oran marks an intersection of cultures, a place where Spanish, Moroccan, French, Arabic, American, Berber, Jewish and gypsy ideas and idioms collided. He was born Khaled Hadj Brahim in 1960 in the Mediterranean port city of Oran - or "Crazyville," as he once called it. Taken literally, rai translates to "opinion," and Khaled has taken this idea to heart in his music, speaking out to his countrymen with a voice that transcends borders.
Algerian singer Khaled is known as the King of Rai - a kind of North African music with roots in traditional folklore.
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