French-Algerian musician Rachid Taha, known for fusing Algerian raï folk music with rock, has died. He was 59. Taha died of a heart attack at his home in the Lilas suburb of Paris, according to a ...

PARIS — Algerian singer Rachid Taha, who thrillingly blended Arabic music with rock and techno and at times wore blue contact lenses to protest anti-Arab prejudice in his adoptive France, has died. He ...

The death of Algerian icon Idir has brought an important chapter of Algerian music to a close. Through his brilliant career, Idir modernised and promoted the richness of Kabyle melodies and poetry, ...

I’ve been loving every note of a wonderful new jazz/Algerian chaâbi fusion album called Koum Tara: Chaâbi, Jazz and Strings. I featured a track from it on last week’s show,… The music of Koum Tara: ...

Musician of fusion par excellence, Kheireddine M’kachiche has juggled with all musical registers to which he was given access: from classical music to the Algerian traditional repertoire, from jazz to ...

Omar Mokhtari, a master vocalist and instrumentalist from Algeria now living in Northern California, will perform traditional music from his native country at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, at the Village ...

Bilal is a Raï singer, which is a style of Algerian folk music. He started his career singing at weddings and festivals with his group “El Ahouar” in the 80s. He moved to Marseille in 1989, where he ...