

Air Date
February 6, 2023
Episodes
6 episodes
Raï Is Not Dead
Season 1
Overview
What musical genre can claim to have gone, in the space of fifty years, from a hidden cabaret in Oran to Super Bowl halftime? Born in Algeria at the end of the Second World War, the raï wave spread from the cabarets of western Algeria to the cassette shops of Barbès in Paris, before sweeping the world at the end of the 1980s. its hybridization, the intoxicating music traveled from Algerian and French weddings to the biggest international stages, before suddenly disappearing from the radar at the dawn of the new millennium. Icons that have disappeared, including Cheikha Remitti and Prince Hasni, to young heirs, passing by the star Khaled, the collector Hadj Sameer trace the tumultuous course of this musical genre, between clandestinity, planetary glory and resistance.
Episodes

1. Episode 1

2. Episode 2

3. Episode 3

4. Episode 4

5. Episode 5

6. Episode 6

Hadj Sameer
Self (Host)

Cheb Khaled
Self

Cheb Hasni
Self (archive footage)

Rachid Baba Ahmed
Self (archive footage)

Cheikha Remitti
Self (archive footage)

Boutaïba Seghir
Self

Cheb Mami
Self (archive footage)

Lotfi Attar
Self

Chaba Fadela
Self

Messaoud Bellemou
Self

Cheb Sahraoui
Self

Rachid Taha
Self (archive footage)

Cheb Bello
Self

Faudel
Self (archive footage)

Safy Boutella
Self
Cheb Hamid
Self
Mohamed Lamouri
Self
Belkacem Bouteldja
Self
Mokhtar Bachiri
Self
Sofiane Saïdi
Self