Cheb Kader
| Cheb Kaded الشاب قادر | |
|---|---|
| Native name | قادر المرابط |
| Birth name | Kader El Mrabet |
| Also known as | Cheb Kader, Kader |
| Born | 1966 Oran Algeria |
| Origin | Morocco |
| Genres | Raï,[1] pop, blues, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, instrumentalist |
| Instruments | Guitar, violin, harmonica, accordion, piano |
| Years active | 1986s–present |
Kouider Morabet, better known as Cheb Kader, is a moroccan singer, songwriter/composer and pioneer of raï. He was born in 1966 in Oran, Algeria.
Cheb Kader, was barely nine years old when he moved to France to join his father. His father, a musician himself, encouraged his son to play music. The two were even in a small group with Kader's father on flute and Cheb Kader on percussion. Feeling the passion of his son for music, Cheb Kader's father gave him a guitar and the young Kader began to take music theory classes in order to know the basics of music.
Cheb Kader gets a CAP in auto mechanics in 1982 and went to Paris to pursue his dreams and songs, with his guitar on the shoulder, Cheb Kader makes smalle job right,and save's enough money to produce a first demo and start in the professional music environment. His meeting with Michel Levy in 1985 was a turning point in his life and so in 1986 he released his first album titled reggae-rai which was also the first fusion in the Rai. Cheb Kader finally released his first album in 1988 which was an international success and distributed World Wide.
His career start quickly and Cheb Kader begins a life of tours and performances throughout Europe, North Africa, but also in the United States and Japan.
In 1991, Cheb kader offers 5 new songs to his fans in the album "Generation Rai" but unfortunately, conflicts between him and his record company make Cheb Kader withdraw from the art world.
Cheb Kader announced his return in the landscape of Rai music with "Majiti". He recorded the album "Mani" in 2002 with the Sophia Philharmonic Orchestra (Bulgaria) a rai disk accessible to the general public, with gypsy sounds on the title "Nsiti", R&B alongside the singer Amel, Latin rhythms for duet with Sergent Garcia. Cheb Kader is the true precursor of Rai in France thanks to essential titles like his famous song "Sal dem Drai" or Sid El Houari he released in 1988, he was also a reformer in Rai, which has its beginnings in the movement of the '80s Rai.
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It was only in the mid-1980s rai would actually be catapulted to the status of national music with the arrival of new singers, Chebs young "femalecheba): Cheb Kader (From Oran to Paris) largest importer of this style in Europe who proposed the first Western-rai music inspired fusion of funk, rock reggae.
Cheb Kader has just released a new single called "Lila Kbira" and in the same occasion a best of best songs and nome "Dima-Rai" before the release in March 215 of a new single from his new album which will be released for the summer 2015.
References
- ↑ Greenberg, Adam. "Cheb Kader – From Oran to Paris". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 16 October 2014.