Cheb Mami was born in 1966 as Khelifati Ahmed Mohammed in Algeria Saida. At a young age his talent was recognized when he won a talent contest in his hometown. Rai is the premise of his music, but Mami was also open to other musical and cross-genre collaborations. So did the singer both Sting and Nile Rodgers as Ziggy Marley and the Iraqi singer Kadim Al Sahir. In 2007 the singer became discredited
… because he was arrested in Algeria. The charge was that Mami his ex-girlfriend was forced to undergo an abortion.more