The Algerian singer Warda, whose sultry voice and range helped make her one of the giants of Arab song, has died. She was 72. Egyptian state TV said Warda died Thursday at her home in Cairo. The ...

The audience are on their feet and dancing, during a jazz concert by Minneapolis U.S. Bluesman Bernard Allison in Constantine, Algeria. Young people climbed up the old marble columns of the hall for a ...

Rachid Taha, who became a rock star in France with assertive lyrics and music that melded his Algerian heritage with punk, funk and electronic beats, has died in Les Lilas, a Paris suburb. He was 59.

The release of the song "El Watan El Akhbar" ("The Great Nation") seemed to capture the sentiments that were running wildly through the hearts of young people across the Arab world. Longtime rulers ...

"I hate world music," Rachid Taha said via phone from his Paris apartment. Taha -- the French-Algerian singer, songwriter and bandleader whose music many would describe as the epitome of world beat -- ...

Born in Algeria but living in France since he was 10, Taha was always passionately outspoken in his songs both against what he saw as the West's racism and unjust wars, and the Arab world's ...

In the 1980s, Algeria experienced a tumultuous social context which reached its peak during the riots of October 88. This wave of protest, with youth as its figurehead, echoed the texts of raï singers ...

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, ...

Algerian singer Cheikha Rimitti, known as the “mother of rai,” the Algerian music of dissent, died of a heart attack May 15 in Paris. She was 83. Rimitti, who was still performing concerts in Europe, ...

Rachid Taha, the French-Algerian singer best known for fusing rock with raï, a form of traditional Algerian folk, has died from a heart attack at age 59. “It is with regret and immense sadness that ...