A Native in Saida, a small village in southwest Algeria, Cheb Mami has been attracting attention with his soulful singing since his early teens and now creates Arabic rock and roll retaining the virtues of traditional music but infused with urban urgency that has turned the genre into a futuristic dance, funk hybrid with the power to pack the dancefloors the world over. A solitary man might be shoed in his music but Eric Sandrin's intimate portrait follows the King of Rai back to his Algerian roots where the boy from the Algerian countryside handles his new-found public acclaim with aplomb, renews old acquaintances and has dinner an insatiable thirst for communication, socially and naturally professionally.
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