P.arc des princes, 11 June 2022. DJ Snake, all dressed in black leather, the everlasting rectangular eyeglasses on his nose, presses a button. In the stadium he performs a gasba (reed flute popular in the Maghreb). Algerian flags fly in the air, 40,000 people today scream. The community identified the initially notes of “Disco Maghreb”, the title that the Franco-Algerian DJ has just released in homage to the famed Oran label and its founder who, in the 1980s, launched raï and its singers to the earth. , Cheb Mami and Cheb Khaled… In the stands, Boualem Benhaoua has goosebumps.
Shaved head, gold-rimmed eyeglasses, floral shirt, this was born in Oran in 1954, prior to the independence of Algeria, in the very poor community of Ras El Aïn. His father, a farmer …
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