Artist: Abdel Ali Slimani
Genre(s):
Ethnic
Discography:
Mraya
Year: 1996
Tracks: 9
Rai singer Abdel Ali Slimani was brocaded in El Anasser, Algeria, where as a teenager he knowledgeable guitar and performed as a drummer at association football matches. Finding little chance for musicians in his native acres, he went to Paris in 1982; later a subsequent move to London, Slimani found puzzle out as a golf club DJ before signing on as a vocalizer and percussionist with ex-PiL bassist Jah Wobble's Anglo-Arabic social unit Invaders of the Heart. In 1996, Wobble co-produced Slimani's solo debut Mraya, a collection spotlighting the fusion of the performer's rai-based Algerian roots with the influences of Western culture.
